From: "Jon Jensen" <jon.jensen@hci.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?
Date: 1997/12/03
Date: 1997-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd000f$f8a452b0$baeb649b@freeman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 881119612.87snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl
I would say if you want to develop Win32 based applications which require
database support you should use Visual Basic 5.0 or Delphi 3.0. If you
want to really learn Windows programming get Charles Petzold's Programming
Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1) and Visual C++ 5.0.
While you may be able to program Windows applications in Ada it doesn't
mean that you should - especially considering it's now legal not to. If
you know Ada better than C++ I would agree that Delphi is the best choice
to quickly build Windows apps.
IMHO if you want to be good at Windows programming and really understand
what's going on you need to learn it from the C/C++ end. This forces a
certain level of discipline and understanding that I have never seen from
someone who jumped into it at the VB or Delphi level (or at the Ada or
Modula-2 level).
If Borland had used Ada 95 instead of Object Pascal for Delphi ... well
that's another story.
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1997-12-03 0:00 ` Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada? Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Jon Jensen [this message]
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Richard Toy
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Tri-Ada papers on the web? (was Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?) Ben Brosgol
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada? Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-07 0:00 tmoran
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1998-02-07 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-05 0:00 Tom Moran
1998-02-06 0:00 ` nabbasi
1997-12-02 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29 0:00 Mike Willour
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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1997-12-02 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-11-29 0:00 Mike Willour
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