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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Maybe there doesn't need to be a DBMS built in Ada, but it might be nice to
> present a "conventional" answer for database work from Ada. 

That's the mission of GNADE.

> <snip>
> Can C++ interface to a dbms? Sure. Does your average C++ compiler
> come with a "standard" interface to a DBMS and a working open source
> DBMS so you can just start programming a database out of the box?
> No? 

Then the market must not want one. Database access has been around a
_long_ time, and is a _huge_ market!

What the market seems to want is Visual Basic-like tools, that make it
easy to build GUI interfaces, with data fields bound to databases.

Actually, SQL and ODBC are the conventional answers. GNADE provides
Ada bindings to ODBC, and SQL as either normal Ada strings, or a
preprocessed "embedded" language addon.
 
-- 
-- Stephe