From: Bob Leif, Ph.D.
To: Phil Johnson et al.

I use Ada.Direct_Io to store a Positive number (1..100) and every time the
data is saved, the number is increase by 1. At midnight, the number is reset
to 1. This number is concatenated as a suffix with the date to produce a
file name. These unique file names are used to store data from individual
experiments. I actually have two versions, one for DOS where the month is
expressed as 2 numbers and the other where the month is expressed by a 3
letter abbreviation.

However instead of the trivial example I have given, the real problem is to
create the persistent objects used in databases. The actual data type should
be generic. I tried for several years to convince my friends at INEEL to
restructure AdaSAGE by employing the object functionality and improved
generics of Ada '95. I might add that when we refer to object technology, we
should just consider Ada generics to be a very advanced part of object
technology.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)
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> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:31 PM
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> Subject: persistant object in Ada
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> Is there a Ada-specific method to add persistant data capabilities
> to an application?
>
> Any hints or comments are welcomed.
>
> Phil Johnson
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