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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,912597791e813f68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-05 04:42:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula Date: 5 Jan 2003 04:42:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <17cd177c.0301050442.3dc53930@posting.google.com> References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.218.91.173 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1041770536 23150 127.0.0.1 (5 Jan 2003 12:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jan 2003 12:42:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32568 Date: 2003-01-05T12:42:16+00:00 List-Id: Alfred Hilscher: > Compared to Modula-2 I see the following disadvantages: Now some advantages of Ada: - usable modularity (thank to "use"). In Modula-2 you have to write things like "FROM Math IMPORT Cos, Sin, ...." "FROM IO IMPORT WriteLn, ReadLn, ..." if you don't want to prefix everything. - a standard library. In Modula-2 it is the empty set. OK, there are more or less comparable Text_IO (IO) but some compilers have "WRITE", others "Write"... since M2 is case-sensitive, you reach the zero-portability level. Even the common denominator of all BASIC's provide more... - available compilers About the big size of executables, there are other Ada compilers than GNAT (with smart linking for instance). ________________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site!