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,d14ef72cb8e7209e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-13 23:33:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: incomplete languages References: <428968F7B1BF17A9.6A6D58CAF1B6556F.04F4A38665DE33F8@lp.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <428968F7B1BF17A9.6A6D58CAF1B6556F.04F4A38665DE33F8@lp.airnews.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:33:35 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.77.153.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1042529615 193.77.153.232 (Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:33:35 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:33:35 MET Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32994 Date: 2003-01-14T08:33:35+01:00 List-Id: John R. Strohm wrote: > "Georg Bauhaus" wrote in message > news:avvoa2$dbo$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de... > >>Karel Miklav wrote: >>: so I have to export logic to the remote database server. This logic can >>: be written in Ada like syntax, but clearly not in Ada, the language. >> >>Couldn't you, practically, split your program into partitions, one >>running on the database computer, using Ada from the Distributed Systems >>annex? > > It sounded to me as though he wanted that built into the language, so that > the programmer would neither know nor care whether the program was focused > in one CPU or distributed across many, by an unspecified communications > subsystem. An application server like web server or an SQL database has to accept data and code from its clients. It can parse scripts, but it generally has no clue about compiled programs and binary objects it receives, unless they are described in another language like IDL, ODL, WSDL or something. If everything could be just written once, that would be perfect; but are compiled languages reflexive enough for something like that? The answer is no, by definition; but with some binding technology... Isn't it true, that we can express everything in english? Regards, Karel Miklav