Re: Ada == Pascal?

["Larry J. Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net>]

Kaz Kylheku <kaz@vision.crest.nt.com> wrote in article
<5ktlu6$34k@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>...
> In article <19970508012401.VAA25892@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> TConiam <tconiam@aol.com> wrote:
> >Yes, Ada is similar to Pascal, and also Modula 3.  In addition, Ada's
> >object oriented, has multitasking built-in to the language, exception
> >handling, and many other wonderful features.
> 
> Sure. And TeX is similar to C because it uses curly braces for delimiting
> scopes and has case-sensitive identifiers. :) Ada is nothing like Pascal 
> in spite of some superficial syntactic similarities.  I've been asking C
> programmers what they think of Ada; a common misconception is that it is
> derived from Pascal, and therefore suffers from its drawbacks.  The
comparison
> to Modula 3 is perhaps more benign, but don't mention the P word!

I certainly wish Pascal was more like Ada! The similarities are mostly
superficial. I've been doing a fair amount of work in Delphi 2 (which uses
Borland's Object Pascal 7) and I'm constantly wishing Borland had used Ada
95... Or that someone would come out with an Ada 95 product similar to
Delphi...

> >If your interested you should look at the AdaHome website at     
> >http://www.adahome.com/
> >
> >The Lovelace tutorial will give you a good overview.
> 
> It's a very nice tutorial.

Agreed.

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