Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

["Larry Elmore" <lj.elmore@gte.net>]

"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org> wrote in message
news:39A6B3FF.73538A0E@acm.org...
> >
> I would agree, but with a qualification. In some domains with some
> development environments, you get lots of prepackaged, well integrated
> services. The language itself (Ada) is going to be faster/better/cheaper
> to develop in than (say) C++ or some other popular languages because of
> ease of understanding, extensive checking to avoid bugs, easier
> debugging, easier configuration management, etc. However, its hard to
> compete with something like Microsoft Visual C++ for PC app development
> simply because of the body of code leveraged through the MFC and the
> really spiffy, well integrated IDE. While similar tools are available
> with Ada to some extent, you don't get the whole thing in one nice kit,
> so you'll lose time in pulling the tools together, integrating them,
> figuring out how to use them, etc. For some domains you may not have
> these tools at all.
>
> Granted, this is not a "language" issue, but more of a "development
> environment" issue. Some other language may be faster to develop in
> simply because of the availability of the whole environment - not
> because of the language itself.

I haven't used MS Visual C++ much (just worked my way through the tutorial
apps), and I haven't used Delphi since ver.2, but I thought Delphi was a
much better environment to work in than MFC, and I liked Object Pascal a lot
better than I've ever liked C++. That said, I just wish Delphi used Ada 95
instead of Object Pascal. _That_ would've been the best of all possible
worlds and I'd almost certainly still be using it today.

Larry