From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf02c238a92156a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows Ada database support. Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:13:09 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1uilt4ov46zgs$.13z3gyuan5tqt$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <1pfbqtrpc3y3v$.1j9ia6xrmr4pc$.dlg@40tude.net> <2004112719465816807%david@bottoncom> <1wgmsz9nqhzhm.8k6e3o359925$.dlg@40tude.net> <37sspx71yo3v.x8x09ens9mfk.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de LY57dKOdRGIXWzZ3bn5jyAUZCHk4Iqpv0fIUAgl2S8mT6QNF4= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6595 Date: 2004-11-28T20:13:09+01:00 List-Id: On 28 Nov 2004 19:45:59 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> For one of my projects I even have implemented thick OO-ish bindings to >> ODBC via GNADE, but I am not satisfied with ODBC. Not just because of >> performance, which is awful. The very design of ODBC is something. It >> abstracts SQL, but you still have to use SQL. So it takes the worst of two > > Well that the nice point. It gives you an interface to retrieve data from any > SQL statment. More to the point. It is XXI century. We are talking about *statements*, it sounds like early 60s. Retrieving data, positioning cursors, stored procedures. Is it about IBM 360 channel program? (:-)) > Are you really saying that you don't like SQL? Yes, more than C++, even more than bash! (:-)) > I'm not seeing > around another language is is capable of expressing very complexe requests > like SQL does. What about Ada! (no smiley now) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de