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: Bill Meahan Subject: Re: PL/SQL -> Ada Date: 2000/03/28 Message-ID: <38DFFEAE.8C694C4E@wa8tzg.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603196796 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38DD3CA8.BF122672@wa8tzg.org> <38DE46E8.756F5A66@quadruscorp.com> <38DEB5C4.64CACCCC@wa8tzg.org> <38DF90E0.7BE629DD@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 954204030 216.215.13.206 (Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:40:30 CST) Organization: None. Just ask my wife! MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:40:30 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > For better or worse, many programmers will migrate to tools which are > superficially similar to tools that they already know (witness Java). Precisely my point! So why aren't PL/SQL programmers migrating to Ada en' masse? I'm trying to :-) BTW Besides PL/SQL I've programmed in Fortran (II, IID, IV, IVG, IVH, 66, 77) numerous dialects of Assembler from SPS to 8080 to 32-bit minis, FOCAL, BASIC (regular and Visual varieties), Perl, C, PIL, SH/KSH, Excel Macro, Remedy declarations and probably some others I've long since forgotten. 35+ years of programming is a long time :-) Right now, for no special reason other than personal enlightenment, and looking at what PL/SQL might have been if Oracle had left more Ada in it, I'm learning Ada. I'd like to have my programming staff at work leverage their PL/SQL knowledge into Ada and build some really robust applications but TPTB would probably hang me by my thumbs in front of the iTek building. Seems Ada has a reputatation (around most of the auto industry, anyway) of being a language for missle programmers and/or anal-retentive types who spend more time arguing chapter and verse of ARM or ARM95 than actually coding anything useful. Sorry, but that's the image TPTB have of Ada. They'd rather throw up crap "Web applications" quickly than build robust systems. Code quality ain't Job 1. If it were, our "enterprise architecture" would not be 100% Microsoft, that's for sure :-( (For the acronym impaired, TPTB = "The Powers That Be") -- Bill Meahan WA8TZG wmeahan@wa8tzg.org Cro-magnon woodworker. Unix Bigot. Perl fan. Oracle weenie. Managing software development is like herding cats.