New in Ada, written some programs and earned money!

New in Ada, written some programs and earned money!

[Frank Piron]

Hi Ada,

I'm new in Ada, really new, that is i started to
learn the language 3 months ago.

My previous experiences in programming were in
pure C and ORACLE PL/SQL 2.3 - much like Ada83
i think. 4 years ago we started development of
a complete control system for a police department
in switzerland. It is ORACLE-based, contains
a workflow engine, document management, GUI in
ORACLE-Forms, much PL/SQL-Code inside the Database,
much exception handling.

The demands of the customer concerning stability and
security were very strict and we expensively used
the exception handling mechanism of PL/SQL. But this
Language is pretty restricted in respect to modern
software engineering methods and last year meanwhile
in the own company i encountered Ada95.

I read some books ( Barnes , Feldman, ... ) and started
to play around and i felt good with my PL/SQL-experiences.

3 weeks ago i delivered my first little programs in Ada which
i used to write in C earlier, when the capabilities of the
poor ORACLE-Client PL/SQL-engine did not suffice.

The programs were simple helpers, one parsing a file
written in a proprietary format, one calling some
win32 api functions. But i was curious to know more
about string handling in Ada and interfacing with C.

Great success! Simple development, no errors till
now. Ok, i had my fight with the compiler, but it
was productive. 

I think the Ada community should try to get the
attention of the many many PL/SQL-Developers in the
world. Ada is an ideal way to enrich the programming
skills and possibilities for them.

Frank Piron

Re: New in Ada, written some programs and earned money!

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <3E55F59A.757E2D45@konad.de>, Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de> writes:

> I think the Ada community should try to get the
> attention of the many many PL/SQL-Developers in the
> world. Ada is an ideal way to enrich the programming
> skills and possibilities for them.

PL/SQL-Developers would likely ignore entreaties from the general
Ada community, and they would be wise to do so.

PL/SQL-Developers would more likely be influence by someone like you,
who knows the PL/SQL domain and understands their needs.  Writing a
paper for a PL/SQL conference or publication would be one method,
but don't ignore the possibility of one-on-one contacts.

Re: New in Ada, written some programs and earned money!

[Frank Piron]

Larry Kilgallen schrieb:
> 
> In article <3E55F59A.757E2D45@konad.de>, Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de> writes:
> 
> > I think the Ada community should try to get the
> > attention of the many many PL/SQL-Developers in the
> > world. Ada is an ideal way to enrich the programming
> > skills and possibilities for them.
> 
> PL/SQL-Developers would likely ignore entreaties from the general
> Ada community, and they would be wise to do so.

Ask some PL/SQL-Developer who encounters the narrow borders
of the language. He or She would like to see a demo of Ada i think.

> PL/SQL-Developers would more likely be influence by someone like you,
> who knows the PL/SQL domain and understands their needs.  Writing a
> paper for a PL/SQL conference or publication would be one method,
> but don't ignore the possibility of one-on-one contacts.

I started to do so,

Frank Piron