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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efdfc9eb6aee41c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:13:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:14:10 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image References: <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org> <40C1C12B.5030306@noplace.com> <40C22F52.8090203@noplace.com> <40C246A7.4070705@netcabo.pt> <40C3291E.5000908@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <40C3291E.5000908@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.67 X-Trace: sv3-1uHgFHMR//qGgtzmKNcLDWM8sryB5EDHgJWwQO1PUqq3ZdwJ0oLUC1fSZ1IYT4rhwxeC3HDABkGbPgd!/rNJh/nXK3mUwsWvIBmMgFUcEFtqqW45NSbBC+fLAq/CffP0Qcfjk1C6AH2lOCTu5fUQ7vev+QAO X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1171 Date: 2004-06-06T13:14:10-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > already dominated by other players. *Especially* if it somehow involves > a potential user having to adopt a new language (Ada) in some regard. Speaking of "new language," I was "impressed" by one product's binding architecture: You write your SQL, and run a converter that turns it into an Ada record containing, instead of string literals, array aggregates of individual characters, e.g., ... 'S', 'E', 'L', 'E', 'C', 'T', ' ', 'F', 'I', 'E', 'L', 'D', ' ', ... -- Wes Groleau "Beware the barrenness of a busy life." -- George Verwer