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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,T_HK_NAME_FM_MR_MRS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Yes, there is an ADA language Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:13:36 +0800 Organization: Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:13:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7a7275a5ca921e5b0a433ea998ca2534"; logging-data="14545"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pYSfrQ+cVm5od2eTd34os" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ipFzR0OA+tWn6nQsaYOkZdbV0Io= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32424 Date: 2016-11-23T12:13:36+08:00 List-Id: On 23/11/2016 1:15 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > Sure. Why would anybody use SQL within any decent programming language? > SQL makes some sense only with an external DBMS. For an internal DBMS > there are much more efficient interfaces than ugly SQL. Provided the > DBMS is relational, because depending on the task there are more > efficient non-relational DBMS and persistence layers. Think standalone applications! Ada is totally useless in modern Window$ without a GUI DOM and a built-in SQL engine like Foxpro's Rushmore. Find and talk to a *good* Visual Foxpro programmer in your area. Let him/her show you how fast one could raise and build a business application *from scratch*.