bryk@csed-1.UUCP (Bill Brykczynski) (01/22/88)
I am interested in determining the scope of bindings which Ada will be faced with in the near (5 year) future. Bindings, also called secondary standards, allow a language (such as Ada) to interface with another facility in a common fashion. Within the ANSI/ISO arena, there currently exists a binding for Ada and (GKS). There are also Ada bindings being proposed within the database arena for SQL. The STARS program is funding an Ada binding to the windowing facility X-Windows. I can see a possible need for a binding to hierarchical or network DBMS's. Even though almost all new applications requiring DBMS technology are using the relational model, there does exist a great deal of applications which still employ pre-relational technology. There exists an ANSI standard for network databases (NDL), although I am not sure just how many databases support that language. There is currently interest in binding Ada to POSIX. What other types of facilities exist (or are emerging) which Ada will need to interface with? Please respond to the address below, and I will post a summary. Bill Brykczynski Institute for Defense Analyses (703) 824-5515 BRYKCZYN at AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU