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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2016-02-04 17:59, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2016-02-04 17:52, Björn Lundin wrote:
>>> On 2016-02-03 23:11, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
> Especially bad is when a customer cannot pull data to Excel.

Why would that be hard? I do it all the time in my programs, no database (or 
even persistent storage) in sight. It's easy to read/write .csv files in 
Ada, and I believe that someone even has a library for writing .xls files.

(I'd like a nice spreadsheet program in Ada, too; one would hope it would 
stay up more than LibreOffice Calc does. But I can be a realist when 
necessary...)

> As you say - driven by non-Ada tools, but I do not agree upon
> replacing them -from a business point of view.

The real reason to stick with non-Ada tools is when large parts of the 
system already are in a non-Ada language, and you're just adding to it.

> DBMS is also motivated by its history. It is a proven concept.

Yeah, proven to make Larry Ellison very rich! The rise of No_SQL has shown 
that it's overkill (and even harmful) in many cases. But off topic to 
discuss here...

                                            Randy.