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-Thread: 103376,bf02c238a92156a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Frank Piron Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows Ada database support. Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:12:13 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <1pfbqtrpc3y3v$.1j9ia6xrmr4pc$.dlg@40tude.net> <2004112719465816807%david@bottoncom> <1wgmsz9nqhzhm.8k6e3o359925$.dlg@40tude.net> <37sspx71yo3v.x8x09ens9mfk.dlg@40tude.net> <1uilt4ov46zgs$.13z3gyuan5tqt$.dlg@40tude.net> <41aaf478$0$13465$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <41AB0141.4010604@mailinator.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p508b432c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: online.de 1101733943 11574 80.139.67.44 (29 Nov 2004 13:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:12:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6634 Date: 2004-11-29T14:12:13+01:00 List-Id: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:00:17 +0100 Alex R. Mosteo wrote: >> if you love Ada, it will make you love SQL. if you love SQL, it will >> make you love Ada. > > Until you come to PL/SQL arrays ;) (or lack thereof). Yes. There are PL/SQL "Tables" (kind of sparse dynamic arrays). But not handy for Ada people. > But I love, for example, writing > > for I in (select something from wherever) loop Implicit "cursor for loops" are beautiful until your app run into the first "snapshot too old" error. -- Frank Piron, defrankatkonaddot (leftrotate two)