Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?

[Gour <gour@atmarama.net>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:50:20 +0000 (UTC)
Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:


> The problem is that the good support is more important to some
> learners than a technically better language.

I'm in somewhat similar situation and looking onto which language to
focus my learning in order to later write multi-platform GUI app.

However, Ada is, this time, not measured against Pascal but against D.

By looking at the table comparing the two languages
(http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD), it seems to
me they are pretty close without any having some outstanding features
which would be insurmountable.

Level of GUI bindings support is similar in both camps, although there
was some psot recently about the attempt to provide some native GUI lib
in D.

Based on what I can see, development of D is (more) in FOSS-spirit and
it looks that D is more interesting language for open-source projects
with very active mailing lists and choice between 3 compilers (DMD, LDC,
GDC) while Ada seems not to be very popular choice in FOSS world.

Not long ago there was a post in D forums with with subject "Why I chose
D over Ada and Eiffel",
(http://forum.dlang.org/thread/vqsnloitqvouoahdngzb@forum.dlang.org), so
I'm interested what would be reply here on the topic?


Sincerely,
Gour

-- 
As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, 
the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the 
sake of leading people on the right path.

http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810