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by local_crmdgeon 918 days ago
How many of them are left? I thought it was very much a dead language
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Far from it.

"SQL/PSM (SQL/Persistent Stored Modules) is an ISO standard mainly defining an extension of SQL with a procedural language for use in stored procedures... SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language. However, Oracle has maintained a distance from the standard in its documentation. IBM's SQL PL (used in DB2) and Mimer SQL's PSM were the first two products officially implementing SQL/PSM. It is commonly thought that these two languages, and perhaps also MySQL/MariaDB's procedural language, are closest to the SQL/PSM standard. However, a PostgreSQL addon implements SQL/PSM (alongside its other procedural languages like the PL/SQL-derived plpgsql), although it is not part of the core product."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

As I understand, there's a very long tail of continued Ada use in military and aviation.

So depends on your definition of "dead"

It's still very popular in air traffic control. Some older NASA and military projects used it and are still in use.
There are still plenty of Ada devs around, but they're almost all in the DoD or working for defense contractors.