From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,832f6b80880a44ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Larry J. Elmore" Subject: Re: Ada == Pascal? Date: 1997/05/09 Message-ID: <01bc5c36$94a28700$816700cf@default>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240420338 References: <19970508012401.VAA25892@ladder01.news.aol.com> <5ktlu6$34k@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: CampusMCI Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kaz Kylheku wrote in article <5ktlu6$34k@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>... > In article <19970508012401.VAA25892@ladder01.news.aol.com>, > TConiam 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Larry J. Elmore Bozeman, Montana "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares." --Isaiah 2:4 "History teaches us that those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords." --Anon.