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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d8567bda6086509f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Aron Felix Gurski Subject: Re: What about Ada? Date: 1996/08/06 Message-ID: <3207BE56.6856@sn.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172530082 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: SN Internett mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Date: 1996-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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/