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Re:Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us by gaius on Monday June 02, 2008 @05:29AM (#206579)
Funny, I look at Ada every day ('cept it's called PL/SQL).
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Re:Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us by huherto on Monday June 02, 2008 @04:45PM (#207252)
Please explain
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Re:Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us by gaius on Monday June 02, 2008 @05:19PM (#207299)
Ada never caught on as a general purpose programming language, but a subset of it lives on in PL/SQL, the embedded language in Oracle. It's not the most flexible or elegant language, but it's easy enough to learn and extremely reliable. It's all about choosing the right tool for the job. Sure you can run C in-process with your database, but unless you really, really have to it's a bit pointless to risk i.
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