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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19e5b33f9f553134,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-27 08:58:40 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!193.162.153.122!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!193-153-254-209.uc.nombres.ttd.ES!not-for-mail From: Alejandro R. Mosteo <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: What about PL/SQL? Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:58:38 +0100 Organization: TruliSoft Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193-153-254-209.uc.nombres.ttd.es (193.153.254.209) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 980614719 15737332 193.153.254.209 (16 [49872]) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4604 Date: 2001-01-27T17:58:38+01:00 List-Id: I've been following with interest the discussion about how to make Ada more popular and I'm wondering of the absence of a single mention to PL/SQL. Maybe I'm plainly wrong (I'm a newbie on PL/SQL) but: Oracle (version 9i is the latest??) is a giant on the large database business. It's own language (PL/SQL) is basically Ada syntax with SQL extensions. In the latest versions of Oracle server, there is no more a preprocessor for Ada (like the Pro*C one). Ins- tead, specs are generated for direct use with Ada com- pilers (not pretty sure of how this works exactly). I think, Oracle is a giant amongst giants, and why we cannot exploit this in favour of Ada? (Now, Oracle is running towards Java, but...) (Just shooting in the air...) ------------------------------ Alejandro R. Mosteo mailto: 402450@cepsz.unizar.es ------------------------------