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: 2003-02-15 12:02:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!54c36c46!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E4E9CD7.8DEA56BD@verizon.net> From: Mark Wallace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 in business (database) software References: <3E45EE04.280EC800@verizon.net> <3E476391.C1179F67@praxis-cs.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:02:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.60.192.91 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1045339364 4.60.192.91 (Sat, 15 Feb 2003 15:02:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 15:02:44 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34129 Date: 2003-02-15T20:02:44+00:00 List-Id: Peter Amey wrote: > > 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 I read this article (from your Web site), and, while I found it very interesting, didn't see any mention of database or SQL. Mark