PL/SQL -> Ada

[Foo Bar <foobar@dev.null.net>]

I've been dropping in and out of c.l.a for a couple of years now and
something has always bothered me. With all the discussion of getting
programmers to use Ada instead of <fill in the blank>, I never see any
discussion of "recruiting" Oracle PL/SQL programmers.

Oracle will freely admit that PL/SQL is "based on" Ada and a perusal of
the reserved words list shows a lot more of Ada (probably Ada83) than
Oracle has ever chosen to make an official part of PL/SQL. "with" for
example.

Given the oodles of PL/SQL programmers out there who are already
familiar with many of the basic concepts of Ada (count me as one of
them), why no documentation or tutorials or roadmaps aimed at helping
the PL/SQL programmer "graduate" to Ada? Heck, it'd be nice to see a
paper or two on taking your PL/SQL programs and running them outside of
Oracle via Ada, perhaps working against another brand of database (DB2,
Sybase etc.). And seeing that the Postgres folks have their own
PL/Postgres which is obviously a sort-of clone of PL/SQL and gaining in
popularity, the base is expanding further.

Seems to me to be a natural. So how come I've never seen anything about
it?