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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.24.70 with SMTP id s6mr34119597obf.42.1437413736465; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:35:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.85.225 with SMTP id k1mr260405obz.31.1437413736412; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!pg9no2501706igb.0!news-out.google.com!a16ni23553ign.0!nntp.google.com!f3no480741igg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:35:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <61db6272-72a4-47d7-b0e5-e870ac8a0432@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.161.19.154; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.161.19.154 References: <084c0dc7-ae74-4cb8-b1fe-78f42de94291@googlegroups.com> <5IidnWtEWowowjHInZ2dnUVZ5v6dnZ2d@giganews.com> <61db6272-72a4-47d7-b0e5-e870ac8a0432@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:35:36 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2551 X-Received-Body-CRC: 344776237 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26907 Date: 2015-07-20T10:35:36-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:52:03 AM UTC-6, Serge Robyns wrote: >=20 > I'm surprised that the AdaCore GNATCOLL SQL library has no "standard" sup= port for Oracle, although it was already there in GNADE from which GNATCOLL= SQL was build. I'm ok to work and contribute back, but this removes me fr= om my own project. Moreover, the code is quite "shaky" and not resilient a= t all, which came as a bad surprise to me or a language like ADA. GNATCOLL is terrible -- I've *never* gotten it to build w/ DB support and p= roperly link... and that's even after the massive inconvenience of cygwin (= needed because the blasted project needs .configure and make). What's doubly disappointing about that is that GNATCOLL is presented by Ada= Core (which presents itself as the public face of Ada) as one of the core u= seful-libraries and DOESN'T take advantage of Ada's nice portability instea= d relying on the crap-pile that is make and .configure even when they have/= use GPR-files to represent a project themselves. (i.e. not using your own t= ools is a vote *against* your own product.) If you adopt the "eat your own dogfood" position, you have an incentive to = make that a quality system, fix bugs, and make it easier to use.