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 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: PL/SQL -> Ada Date: 2000/03/26 Message-ID: <38DE46E8.756F5A66@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 602571293 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38DD3CA8.BF122672@wa8tzg.org> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 26 Mar 2000 14:21:46 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-26T14:21:46+00:00 List-Id: Foo Bar wrote: > 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. > At one time in the not too distant past, I spent a great deal of time programming in Ada, connecting to SQL for access to the Rdb database. DEC had an SQL pre-processor for Ada that made this pretty painless. (As you know, this is now owned by Oracle and is being migrated - if not already - to match the Oracle product.) Ada always mixed well with SQL IMHO mostly because it has such rich data representation capabilities. Naturally, I like the programming structures of Ada and accessing a database from it is an added bonus. I suppose that the reason such tutorials/papers are not available is because it takes someone with A) experience in both languages, b) time and skills to write such material, c) a desire to advocate Ada to "the masses" and d) contacts within the PL/SQL community to spread the word. Kind of makes it hard to find someone to sign up for the job, eh? :-) I would imagine that if you were to write a sort of "Pascal-Subset-Intro-To-Ada-For-PL/SQL-Programmers" paper, we could find an appropriate website to put it on. Adapower comes to mind for that task. Then you'd need to talk it up to the PL/SQL newsgroups. I'm also sure that you could find help here in the way of answering specific questions, ("I can do this in PL/SQL - How does it work in Ada?") and probably find a few distinguished reviewers who would look it over and make suggestions. If you think it is important, maybe you are the best qualified to do the job. MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m ***PLEASE REMOVE THE "-NOSPAM" PART OF MY RETURN ADDRESS*** Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Because that's where they keep the money." -- Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks. =============================================================