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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b8965337cd786e8b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-10 01:37:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 in business (database) software Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:37:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3E45EE04.280EC800@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044869866 43529198 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33951 Date: 2003-02-10T10:37:46+01:00 List-Id: On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 05:58:31 GMT, Mark Wallace wrote: >Is anyone using Ada95 for database-oriented business applications? Does >either of the principal commercial compilers (Aonix, GNAT) have a decent >(i.e., better than ODBC) interface to Oracle? My team is evaluating >Ada95 and Eiffel for a new development effort, and we are having a hard >time identifying any sort of track record for Ada95 in this category >(business/database) of application. All the Ada95 "buzz" seems to be >related to device drivers and embedded controller software. > >We're willing to swim upstream with regard to non-mainstream languages, >because we care deeply about software quality. However, we have neither >the expertise nor the funding to (re)create low-level code such as >database interface modules. I am using GNADE (its ODBC binding) with GNAT. GNADE is fine [but ODBC and its implementations is a real disaster] AFAIK, GNADE supports Oracle through native interface . --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de