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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: What about PL/SQL?
Date: 27 Jan 2001 22:09:05 +0100
Date: 2001-01-27T21:11:42+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud7d84s9a.fsf@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MPG.14d3cc1952bee2e79896a0@news.cis.dfn.de


Alejandro R. Mosteo <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> writes:

> Maybe I'm plainly wrong (I'm a newbie on PL/SQL) but:
> 
> Oracle (version 9i is the latest??) is a giant on the
> large database business.
> 
> It's own language (PL/SQL) is basically Ada syntax 
> with SQL extensions.

Indeed.

> 
> In the latest versions of Oracle server, there is no 
> more a preprocessor for Ada (like the Pro*C one). Ins-
> tead, specs are generated for direct use with Ada com-
> pilers (not pretty sure of how this works exactly).

Since long time Oracle wanted to get rid of the PRO*Ada. I talk
to them at some point and the only "really" supported product
was PRO*C. The PRO*Ada was tied to SUN Ada and very old Ada83
compiler... They have never bothered to update to Ada95...

> 
> I think, Oracle is a giant amongst giants, and why we
> cannot exploit this in favour of Ada?

No sure how.

> 
> (Now, Oracle is running towards Java, but...)

As everybody :) Everybody run for the new technology, the best one,
with great features, very essential and fundamental tools, the things
needed for the projects, the technology dreamt for many years... and
and... and the projects(1) are still failing, doubling budget or time or
boths... But no doubt next technology will be the killer one :) Ok
let's run for C#...

Pascal.

(1) I'm talking about projects on the IT fields.
    
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2001-01-27 16:58 What about PL/SQL? Alejandro R. Mosteo
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