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> databases. I agree that it would be *really* slick if Ada compilers were to
> come with some sort of database available. But how do we get the money to
> build something like that? The government? But they don't want to fund Ada
> development, do they? O.K. Don't tell them its for Ada.

They already did.  See my answer to R.R.  I forgot to mention
RTDB was Ada 83 and was written because Ingres was way too slow
for AN/BSY-2.  FIRM was its Ada 95 successor (sort of).

Note that both were developed under defense contracts,
with all the requirements, design, test, peer review,
etc. rigor which that implies.