Andreas Schulz a �crit dans le message <38DE8D9B.83F8D13B@nord-com.net>...
>Emmm - what decade (or product?) are you talking about ?
>The Oracle Pro*Ada precompiler has been in use for years,
>until they decided to abondon it with Oracle 8, concentrating
>on Pro*C and Pro*COBOL (IMHO) due to lack of request.
>


Yes Oracle as abondoned Pro*Ada and I do think that this is good
thing. Pro*Something is just a plain mess and makes your program
non-portable at all. I would prefer to use a high level library (based on
ODBC if possible) to access the content of a database. At least if this
library is based on ODBC you'll have the possibility to change the
database.

PRO*Something just encourage you to have database access all around
your application.

I have worked on an application where we have used PRO*C instead of
and at least it was good because PRO*C is well supported and it was
not possible to "easily" mix PRO*C code with Ada code. So the design
was important here and the interface between both world was clear
and well defined. But I would still prefer to use a high level library to
do the job...

Pascal.

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