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 autolearn=unavailable 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!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.CARNet.hr!news.metronet.hr!news1.t-com.hr!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gour Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:08:16 +0200 Organization: T-Com Message-ID: <20130827230816.535a440d@atmarama.noip.me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-142-201-154.adsl.net.t-com.hr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ls237.t-com.hr 1377637725 11375 93.142.201.154 (27 Aug 2013 21:08:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-com.hr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:08:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.9.1 (GTK+ 2.24.18; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:16989 Date: 2013-08-27T23:08:16+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Simon Clubley 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