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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:55:00 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1idx31lgfwfkk$.u1dep1j5smkx.dlg@40tude.net> References: <20130827230816.535a440d@atmarama.noip.me> <18up66rpmdd93$.dqgc9da684c9$.dlg@40tude.net> <20130828110111.36bf4c96@atmarama.noip.me> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: IenaDxMXK2hi7fvYcb+MlQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17009 Date: 2013-08-28T11:55:00+02:00 List-Id: 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