Kaisler [4] identified several design issues that arose from developing a process for transforming objectoriented programs written in Ada 95 or other objectoriented programming languages to process-oriented programs written in Ada 95. These issues limit -in the authors' opinion -the flexibility of Ada 95 in writing concurrent programs. These problems arise from specific decisions made by the Ada 95 designers. This paper addresses three of these issues: circular references are invalid in

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... , lack of a subclassing mechanism for protected types, and an inability to internally invoke access statements from within a task body. Our goal is to raise the Ada 95 community's awareness concerning these design issues and provide some suggestions for correcting these problems for a future revision of the Ada programming language.