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,c7f5c70275787af8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aratel@total.net (Andre Ratel) Subject: Re: Ada vs Delphi? Date: 1999/08/14 Message-ID: <37b5479b.55233526@news.total.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 512633148 References: <37ab421a.5414989@news.total.net> <37ab8bd1.0@news.pacifier.com> <37ae1fc8.653954@news.clara.net> <7olfni$jsu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37b129ae.43419124@news.total.net> <7os93j$fef$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@total.net X-Trace: news.total.net 934627132 216.210.29.220 (Sat, 14 Aug 1999 06:38:52 EDT) Organization: TotalNet Inc. NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 06:38:52 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:41:25 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >In article <37b129ae.43419124@news.total.net>, > aratel@total.net (Andre Ratel) wrote: >> This is certainly one major advantage of Ada over Delphi. > >Note that in some respects comparing Ada to Delphi is itself >a type error :-) > >Delphi is an implementation of a language, and not just a >language, whereas Ada is a language. > >Yes, you can talk about the language implemented by Delphi, >which is a dialect of Pascal, but still the use of the word >Delphi can cause confusion. You are right, of course. In fact, the language is Object Pascal and Delphi is the programming environment around it. In Delphi circles, some people tend nonetheless to say that they are programming in Delphi instead of Pascal. It seems this has to do with the defamation of Pascal by the C propagandists :-). For a more elaborate explanation of this, you can read the Introduction of Don Taylor, Jim Mischel, John Penman, and Terence Goggin Kick Ass Delphi Programming (Coriolis Group, 1996) Andre