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Subject: Re: can ada do this?
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On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 1:40:00 AM UTC-4, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> > 1 can you talk to scylla from ada?
>=20
> Most likely the easiest path is to bind to the C client API, if the pure-=
Ada API does not exist.
>=20
> > 2 could u replace scyla with somethign better coded in ada?
>=20
> What do you mean by "better coded"? Is this product badly coded, currentl=
y? Or, if you think that the product would benefit from better coding (pres=
umably in the context of some bug, which is a local problem), would it be p=
ossible to code it better in the existing language (presumably by fixing th=
e local bug)?
>=20
> And, lastly, why would anybody replace an existing (and apparently very g=
ood) product with another one? It's much better to spend your effort creati=
ng something new instead.
>=20
> --=20
> Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com

Thank you and others for nice thoughtful answers.