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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Vadim Godunko Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:03:33 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8ab2e95b-19fd-4b24-ad30-882fe709ce49@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> <878x3436pj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1199531506.9355.8.camel@K72> <1199539751.9355.46.camel@K72> <1xu2jerm6vwjv.mt6we9a8wu5q.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.221.195.42 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199603013 6908 127.0.0.1 (6 Jan 2008 07:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 07:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.221.195.42; posting-account=niG3UgoAAAD7iQ3takWjEn_gw6D9X3ww User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070601 SeaMonkey/1.1.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19231 Date: 2008-01-05T23:03:33-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 6, 2:47 am, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry A Kazakov writes: > > Dmitry> Higher than ODBC and properly done. There must be no traces of SQL, pure > Dmitry> relational algebra specified in Ada types, plus connection and transaction > Dmitry> support. I would also like to have non-relational DB support. > > I don't know if this would work in a compiled language like Ada, but I > really like the ideas used in Django (Python): > > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model-api/ > > You create a Python class, using specialised types for fields, and > they get mapped to database tables and columns. No need to use SQL, > although you can if you really have to for some reason. As such, it > really is database independent. > I like ideas of Hibernate: http://www.hibernate.org/ Unfortunately without garbage collector this is very hard to implement and use :-(