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From: Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
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Short notice
Isn't that what MDA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture)
  is all about ??

/Per

Brian May wrote:
>>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry A Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>     Dmitry> [ I think that the issue with static typing can be resolved. Of course the
>     Dmitry> best way would be a support for anonymous record types (tuples). But there
>     Dmitry> exist also possibilities to use generics or else to have abstract base
>     Dmitry> tagged types for cells.]
> 
> My preference for implementing such a system would be to have a
> pre-compiler that compiles the basic table definitions into Ada code
> that can be compiled with the rest of the application (e.g. like IDL
> compilers).
> 
> That way you get static type checking, minimal run-time overhead, etc.
> 
> However, I suspect that I just turned off a lot of people who don't
> like pre-compilers.