Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada

[jrmarino <dragonlace.cla@marino.st>]

On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 4:23:04 PM UTC+2, AdaMagica wrote:
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> I do not see how presence of some documentation should or could offend someone already knowing about how to do it. As I said, I have no idea of RDB. I would have to learn, as it seems, two interfaces, the binding and the interface it binds to. As I understand your description, they differ.
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> If I wasn't clear enough about appreciating your fine work, I appologize. I thought my last sentence made this clear.

I think you lost track of who you are talking to.  George is not the author; I am.
However, he's spot on.  You've circled a target audience that of A) has no SQL database knowledge whatsoever and B) is an Ada user.  People in that union are not my targets.

More over, an analogous work for PHP is PDO (PHP data objects) and nowhere in their documentation do they try to test potential users the fundamentals of SQL relational databases (see http://php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php).  They have books for that sort of thing and it's way out of scope for what I wish to document.   People need these fundamentals long before they should attempt to interface a database programmatically (in any language).

I feel comfortable that users that already have populated databases that they want to interface with programmatically and can already do interactively clients will have no problems with the current level of documentation.