From: x@x.x (x)
Subject: Re: Ada-like language
Date: 1999/04/19
Date: 1999-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KnOS2.1412$217.118883@newscene.newscene.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19990417221639.10903.00002108@ng03.aol.com
In article <19990417221639.10903.00002108@ng03.aol.com>, tconiam@aol.com (TConiam) wrote:
>>I think Oracle (the DB company) made a language (PSQL?) that is based on
>>Ada. I'm not sure though...
>>
>
>Yes, Oracle has PL/SQL which is based on Ada and has SQL like extensions
>including facilities to loop on the results of a SELECT as well as all the DDL,
>and DML. It even includes exception handling for database events.
>
>It is used for programming database triggers (event handling) and for general
>purpose database scripts.
>
>I have even written a crude message parser in it.
If I could add something to this...
PL/SQL does share a lot of syntax with Ada (even packages and block
structure), but the similarity ends there. Where Ada is a very strongly typed
language, PL/SQL is a (very) weakly typed language. You can assign just about
anything to anything else and freely mix and match types in expressions with
nary a complaint from the 'compiler'.
That has bitten me more times than I care to admit. It's too bad Oracle
didn't implement the philosophy of Ada along with the syntax.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-16 0:00 Ada-like language Olivier Marcoux
1999-04-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-18 0:00 ` TConiam
1999-04-19 0:00 ` x [this message]
1999-04-17 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Stephen Burke VG2 3370
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-04-18 0:00 ` Christopher Martin
1999-04-20 0:00 ` No Spam
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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