Re: What about Ada?

[Aron Felix Gurski <agurski@sn.no>]

H Marx wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I signed onto this list to find out what Ada is about. But so far saw
> only Psacal vs. C vs. Assembler...?
> I use Borland Pascal 7.0 and assembler a lot. But it has limitations.
> -What would be the reasons for me to use Ada?
> -How portable is it?
> -Are there "Integerated Developers enviroments" available?
> -Does it use DOS Seg:Ofs memory scheme's, PMode, 32-bit flat?
> -Can you use it in Windows? For windows?
> -How good is it's database support?
> -Does it allow function and operator overloading?
> -How optimised/fast is the code it produces?
> Someone remarked on the list that Ada does not allow Macro's, but does
> give you the option of using OOP or Procedural. Just like macro's can be
> abused, so can OOP, and I would like to have liked the option of using
> macros. (Pascal does not allow it either:-(
> 
> I know I could have found these answers in books as well, but can you
> imagine investing in something that will not even do what you can do
> already?
> 
> Cheers,
> Harry Marx.
> UNISA
> South Africa

How about investing a few minutes reading on the web? You can start at

	http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/