beingchinmay
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The concern about portability might seem odd to those of us familiar with Oracle Corporation's marketing and technical strategies. One of the hallmarks of the Oracle solution from the early 1980s was its portability. At the time that PL/SQL came along, the C−based RDBMS ran on many different operating systems and hardware platforms. SQL*Plus and SQL*Forms adapted easily to a variety of terminal configurations. Yet for all that coverage, there were still many applications which needed the more sophisticated and granular control offered by host languages like COBOL, C, and FORTRAN. As soon as a developer stepped outside of the port−neutral Oracle tools, the resulting application would no longer be portable.The PL/SQL language was (and is) intended to widen the range of application requirements which can be handled entirely in operating−system independent programming tools.