Toward the efficient implementation of expert systems in Ada
S. Daniel Lee · 1990
Due to the Ada mandate of such government agencies as DoD, NASA and FAA, interest in deploying expert systems in Ada has increased. Recently, a couple of Ada-based expert system tools have been developed. According to recent benchmark reports, these tools do not perform as well as similar tools written in C. While poorly implemented Ada compilers also contribute to the poor benchmark result, some fundamental problems of the Ada language itself have been uncovered. In this paper, we describe Ada language issues encountered during the development of ART-Ada, an expert system tool for Ada deployment. ART-Ada is- being used to implement several expert system applications for the Space Station Freedom and the U.S. Air Force.