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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!news-peer-test!news-peer0-test!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <87is4598pm.fsf@insalien.org> <1110054476.533590@athnrd02> <1110059861.560004@athnrd02> <422b6d49.1141887367@news.xs4all.nl> <1110266099.441421.179290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1110332933.587110.260410@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1110390097.532139.43430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-154-188-69.range81-154.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1110391485 4508 81.154.188.69 (9 Mar 2005 18:04:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:04:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1110390097.532139.43430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8960 comp.lang.c++:44828 comp.realtime:1148 comp.software-eng:4706 Date: 2005-03-09T18:04:45+00:00 List-Id: Jerry Coffin wrote: > Martin Dowie wrote: >>Hey! I did add a smiley! I just thought it was an opinion from a >>reputable source that tied in with the post. :-) :-) > > > Sorry -- I rarely add an explicit smiley. Regardless of how my messages > might read, I rarely take much of it _terribly_ seriously. I'll bare that in mind... ...did you see my implicit smiley! > For the question at hand, I'd postulate that an embedded SQL > implementation simply wouldn't do the job. Binding to MySQL or using > ODBC would undoubtedly work, but using MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, > etc., puts us back in the situation where we basically just have SQL > talking to a server written in C. Not necessarily, esp in the fields that Richard comes across day-in-day out. I did have a link at work that was for a web page for a Relational Database written in Ada that Lockheed(?) had developed. > Then again, your headers indicate that you post with Mozilla > Thunderbird running on Windows, connecting through BT Internet. What > percentage of the millions of lines of code used to write and transmit > your message do you suppose was written in Ada, and what percentage in > C and C++? :-) I have no idea - quite possibly 0% but there are plenty of Ada apps around - just not mass public market ones (that I know of). On the other had there is a chance the packets that delivered this email went through some Ada... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3675 > Ada advocate: "The world WOULD be better if you used Ada." > C++ advocate: "The world IS better because of the cool code I wrote." What on earth would the C advocate say!! ;-) Cheers -- Martin