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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada package registry? Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 20:27:39 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com> <56af17b7$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <56b06eb8$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1454483747.2785.135.camel@obry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="29b8650774960281308dc95b48c0b0d7"; logging-data="4385"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3Qg/xGpsJtif4f8NsR6zlifvUNm+aklo=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SLDYDOLWQI5BPEabmYwtF26FIeQ= sha1:orkhmZvRpfbEi9dOMcsAx8LnDN8= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29403 Date: 2016-02-07T20:27:39+01:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On 2016-02-07 11:00, Georg Bauhaus wrote: >> On 07.02.16 09:02, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >>> >>> BTW, the whole idea of exporting something (data) into something >>> (Excel) shows bogus design. Why cannot the end data consumer access >>> data directly? >> >> They don't know the database. >> Privileges would have to be set up. >> Views would have to be created. >> They'd need to learn, and accept, what matters to the statistics, and >> what doesn't. >> .... > > Who? Any customer who, as you suggest, is to gain access to the companies' internal databases. This free access is normally seen as an absurd proposition. Gaultier has in addition mentioned The Law, and company rules. These exist for reasons that transcend technological considerations of programmers. It would be like removing the keyword "private" from the Ada language. Actually more than that, I think.