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From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: What about Ada?
Date: 1996/08/06
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> Hi there,
> I signed onto this list to find out what Ada is about. But so far saw
> only Psacal vs. C vs. Assembler...?
> I use Borland Pascal 7.0 and assembler a lot. But it has limitations.

> -What would be the reasons for me to use Ada?
> -How portable is it?
> -Are there "Integerated Developers enviroments" available?
> -Does it use DOS Seg:Ofs memory scheme's, PMode, 32-bit flat?
> -Can you use it in Windows? For windows?
> -How good is it's database support?
> -Does it allow function and operator overloading?
> -How optimised/fast is the code it produces?
> Someone remarked on the list that Ada does not allow Macro's, but does
> give you the option of using OOP or Procedural. Just like macro's can be
> abused, so can OOP, and I would like to have liked the option of using
> macros. (Pascal does not allow it either:-(

> I know I could have found these answers in books as well, but can you
> imagine investing in something that will not even do what you can do
> already?


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