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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 9 Mar 2005 09:41:37 -0800
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Martin Dowie wrote:

[ ... ]

> Hey! I did add a smiley! I just thought it was an opinion from a
> reputable source that tied in with the post. :-) :-)

Sorry -- I rarely add an explicit smiley. Regardless of how my messages
might read, I rarely take much of it _terribly_ seriously.

[ ... ]

> Would I be allowed to use embedded SQL in the Ada code (GNADE)? Or a
> binding to Postgres or MySQL (APQ) or similar (ODBC)?

For the question at hand, I'd postulate that an embedded SQL
implementation simply wouldn't do the job. Binding to MySQL or using
ODBC would undoubtedly work, but using MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server,
etc., puts us back in the situation where we basically just have SQL
talking to a server written in C.

Now, I have no problem with that at all -- but it certainly doesn't
seem to be in keeping with what Richard was advocating.

Then again, your headers indicate that you post with Mozilla
Thunderbird running on Windows, connecting through BT Internet. What
percentage of the millions of lines of code used to write and transmit
your message do you suppose was written in Ada, and what percentage in
C and C++? :-)

Ada advocate: "The world WOULD be better if you used Ada."
C++ advocate: "The world IS better because of the cool code I wrote."

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.