Re: Ada package registry?

["G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 04.02.16 22:21, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> The rise of No_SQL has shown
> that it's overkill (and even harmful) in many case.

The rise of C has shown that Ada is overkill (and even harmful)
in many cases. Right?

> But off topic to
> discuss here...

Actually, some Ada guy much smarter than most of us, Ichbiah, has
put on record that Ada lacks interfaces to those things very
much on topic in the commercial, world of programming, perhaps
even in the Govt. funded niche.(*) So, that may be on topic.

I wonder why one would want Ada bindings to Windows like CLAW if
Windows had better be redesigned (in Ada) rather than programs
for Windows be written in Ada? Now substitute "RDBMS" for "Windows".

Using a relational DBMS with competitive Ada could like this:

     with Ada.ODBC;

and since SQL knows cursors, the Ada type system could provide
for a corresponding standard Cursor type, etc.

Also, SQL-invoked routines should be dead easy to write in Ada
using just the language and library of Ada.

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(*) "I consider the lack of interfaces to be the most severe
impediment to increasing usage of Ada."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/clH6maq5fgY
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