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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,908bd475d3545aad,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Foo Bar Subject: PL/SQL -> Ada Date: 2000/03/25 Message-ID: <38DD3CA8.BF122672@wa8tzg.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 602373114 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 954023298 216.215.11.113 (Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:28:18 CST) Organization: None. Just ask my wife! MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:28:18 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 , 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?