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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 06:54:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7ED11A.9070500@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F7AC5B0.9080108@noplace.com> <3F7B7641.9030908@noplace.com> <3F7C8482.20102@comcast.net> <3F7D69EA.5030707@noplace.com> <3F7E2740.1050703@comcast.net> <3F7EBD85.8080205@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1065275682 24.34.139.183 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:54:42 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:54:42 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:54:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:221 Date: 2003-10-04T13:54:42+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Right. O.K. Fine. How many databases out there support Ada's > Bounded_String? I don't do much database programming anymore but back > when I did, I didn't notice much support for Ada - beyond maybe a vendor > gave you an Ada pre-processor so you could put SQL into your code. The > data types *maybe* aligned with the more primitive Ada types, but > typically, if the database had some variety of string/text data, you had > to provide a buffer of type String. Maybe its different now - does MySQL > provide something compatible with Bounded_String? Hmmm. I use my own binding to ODBC. This is something that needs to be fixed this time around. During tne last two standarization efforts it was clear that choosing any existing database binding would have been wrong. I think this time that ODBC is probably the right thing to have a binding to, but we will probably have a binding that can be mapped to ODBC, but doesn't specifically require it. Incidently as I write this, the ARG is meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig