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: 103376,6d7a12f584929236,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-21 00:46:02 PST From: Frank Piron Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: New in Ada, written some programs and earned money! Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:47:06 +0000 Organization: KonAd GmbH Message-ID: <3E55F59A.757E2D45@konad.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: p508b45fa.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.online.de 1045817161 20753 80.139.69.250 (21 Feb 2003 08:46:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@online.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Feb 2003 08:46:01 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en-US Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34332 Date: 2003-02-21T08:46:01+00:00 List-Id: Hi Ada, I'm new in Ada, really new, that is i started to learn the language 3 months ago. My previous experiences in programming were in pure C and ORACLE PL/SQL 2.3 - much like Ada83 i think. 4 years ago we started development of a complete control system for a police department in switzerland. It is ORACLE-based, contains a workflow engine, document management, GUI in ORACLE-Forms, much PL/SQL-Code inside the Database, much exception handling. The demands of the customer concerning stability and security were very strict and we expensively used the exception handling mechanism of PL/SQL. But this Language is pretty restricted in respect to modern software engineering methods and last year meanwhile in the own company i encountered Ada95. I read some books ( Barnes , Feldman, ... ) and started to play around and i felt good with my PL/SQL-experiences. 3 weeks ago i delivered my first little programs in Ada which i used to write in C earlier, when the capabilities of the poor ORACLE-Client PL/SQL-engine did not suffice. The programs were simple helpers, one parsing a file written in a proprietary format, one calling some win32 api functions. But i was curious to know more about string handling in Ada and interfacing with C. Great success! Simple development, no errors till now. Ok, i had my fight with the compiler, but it was productive. I think the Ada community should try to get the attention of the many many PL/SQL-Developers in the world. Ada is an ideal way to enrich the programming skills and possibilities for them. Frank Piron