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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b8965337cd786e8b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-10 00:31:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.155.153.242!not-for-mail From: Peter Amey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 in business (database) software Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:32:17 +0000 Organization: Praxis Critical Systems Message-ID: <3E476391.C1179F67@praxis-cs.co.uk> References: <3E45EE04.280EC800@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.155.153.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044865870 43769622 213.155.153.242 (16 [69815]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33949 Date: 2003-02-10T08:32:17+00:00 List-Id: Mark Wallace wrote: > > Is anyone using Ada95 for database-oriented business applications? Does > either of the principal commercial compilers (Aonix, GNAT) have a decent > (i.e., better than ODBC) interface to Oracle? My team is evaluating > Ada95 and Eiffel for a new development effort, and we are having a hard > time identifying any sort of track record for Ada95 in this category > (business/database) of application. All the Ada95 "buzz" seems to be > related to device drivers and embedded controller software. > > We're willing to swim upstream with regard to non-mainstream languages, > because we care deeply about software quality. However, we have neither > the expertise nor the funding to (re)create low-level code such as > database interface modules. > A significant chunk of a secure system we developed in SPARK and Ada 95 involved SQL links to a database. See "Correctness by Construction - Developing a Commercial Secure System" in IEEE Software Jan/Feb 2002 pp18-25. (Also in PDF on www.sparkada.com under publications). ISTR we wrote the binding ourselves but that it wasn't hard. Peter