Re: VMS x86-64 database server

On 7/8/2025 5:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 09:35:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 7/8/2025 4:14 AM, Louis Krupp wrote:

As for embedded SQL being nonstandard, I think you might be interested
in this page:
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https://www.iso.org/standard/84805.html
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which contains this line:
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     ISO/IEC 9075-2 specifies embedded SQL for the programming languages:
     Ada, C, COBOL, Fortran, MUMPS, Pascal, and PL/I.

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Note that while -2 covers native languages, then -10 cover Java.
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I am surprised that they still maintain embedded SQL for Java.
SQLJ has been out of fashion for like 25 years.

 Yes, but “out of fashion” or not, it’s still supposed to be an official
standard according to ISO 9057, isn’t it? Otherwise we could apply the
“out of fashion” argument to some or all of those other parts of the spec
as well.

Standards evolve. They add lots of new stuff. And sometimes they remove
stuff that is not needed anymore.
Embedded SQL in native languages is still needed.
Embedded SQL in Java (SQLJ) is not needed anymore so they could have
dropped it (make it deprecated in N+1 and then remove it in N+2
or similar).
Fortran has done a bunch of those:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Obsolescence_and_deletions
Arne