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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.129.19 with SMTP id ns19mr1455044obb.32.1372946403786; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:00:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.62.3 with SMTP id u3mr139170qer.26.1372946403603; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!cs.uu.nl!news.stack.nl!news.litech.org!news.glorb.com!t19no347969qam.0!news-out.google.com!f7ni959qai.0!nntp.google.com!t19no337613qam.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 07:00:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.7.34.12; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.7.34.12 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2b87840a-74a5-4cd7-a32e-7fb18d9cc46b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? From: AdaMagica Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:00:03 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Original-Bytes: 1879 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182272 Date: 2013-07-04T07:00:03-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:48:21 PM UTC+2, jo...@peppermind.com wrote: > In terms of learning, I'd say that Ada and FreePascal are on a par. > Ada has a few initial hurdles - it took me quite a while to understand how > generics work and tasking is more complicated than in other languages because > it is properly defined and not just wrapped around OS threads. I second all this, but the last argument is odd. Something well-defined is more complicated than something not so well-defined?