From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:55:00 +0200
Date: 2013-08-28T11:55:00+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1idx31lgfwfkk$.u1dep1j5smkx.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130828110111.36bf4c96@atmarama.noip.me
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:01:11 +0200, Gour wrote:
> Well, there is not much invention going on in the language-arena and
> 'new' languages are mostly just trying to blend some (sub)set of
> 'language features' into some, hopefully, cohesive package.
There is no reason to believe that. I would compare it with medieval
alchemy. Yes, of course recent 20 years was almost total waste.
> Otoh, language features alone are mostly not deciding criteria when
> choosing implementation language without considering the whole ecosystem
> (libraties, tools support, etc.)
If you have no proper criteria of choice you inevitably switch to more and
more irrelevant things. "Ecosystem" influences our choices of programming
languages as much as it does our choices of food or clothes. Which does not
mean that what we eat or wear or program with is any good or bad.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2013-07-04 6:59 Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Dufr
2013-07-04 9:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-04 11:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-07-04 15:50 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 14:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:18 ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 11:48 ` john
2013-07-04 14:00 ` AdaMagica
2013-07-04 14:22 ` john
2013-07-04 14:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-04 18:18 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-04 19:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-04 20:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-04 20:36 ` Shark8
2013-07-05 21:20 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-05 23:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-27 14:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:24 ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 18:49 ` john
2013-07-04 15:49 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-04 16:00 ` Lucretia
2013-07-04 17:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-05 21:39 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-06 7:04 ` Dufr
2013-07-06 15:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-06 17:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-06 18:59 ` Shark8
2013-07-06 18:36 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-07-06 22:19 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-07 8:43 ` Mike H
2013-07-08 13:53 ` Marc C
2013-08-27 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 16:50 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 17:02 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 20:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 12:05 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 21:08 ` Gour
2013-08-27 22:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 8:54 ` Gour
2013-08-28 9:35 ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 10:48 ` Web-UI for Ada applications Gour
2013-08-28 11:32 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-28 11:54 ` Gour
2013-08-28 12:05 ` G.B.
2013-08-28 16:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 15:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 14:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 15:34 ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-29 9:51 ` Web-UI for Ada applications Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-27 23:17 ` Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 0:04 ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-08-28 6:28 ` Simon Wright
2013-09-01 3:04 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-09-01 3:48 ` Shark8
2013-08-28 8:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 9:01 ` Gour
2013-08-28 9:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2013-08-28 10:42 ` Gour
2013-07-07 4:14 ` Patrick
2013-08-27 14:23 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2016-03-14 15:29 ` girobusan
2016-03-14 18:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-03-14 18:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-14 23:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-15 10:51 ` Bob Butler
2016-03-15 21:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-16 11:07 ` Bob Butler
2016-03-16 21:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2016-03-17 1:08 ` brbarkstrom
2016-03-17 7:59 ` Bob Butler
2016-03-17 8:36 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-03-15 9:04 ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 9:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15 9:56 ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15 10:31 ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:53 ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 13:18 ` G.B.
2016-03-15 13:52 ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 14:28 ` G.B.
2016-03-15 14:31 ` egarrulo
2016-03-17 14:59 ` sjaniska
2016-03-15 17:50 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-03-16 15:43 ` Jeremiah
2016-03-15 14:38 ` G.B.
2016-03-15 17:33 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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