Re: Object Pascal (Delphi) or ADA???????

[Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>]

I've done some fair amount of each.  I like them both.  

If you want to write code, get it right, and keep it going for 
some years, Ada is very good. If you want to be more of a systems 
integrator than programmer, assemble relatively cheap (comes
with it or free to $1000), reasonable quality third-party components 
into a Windows app, Delphi is very good.  If your app is big enough 
to have some substantial amount of GUI and database (Delphi is good 
at these) or other things you can buy easily in Delphi, and some 
substantial amount of programming of various processes or algorithms 
that you can't acquire somewhere,  it might be big enough for both 
languages.  

Delphi is favored if time-to-market is key and the amount and 
complexity of coding to be done are not high.  Ada is favored if 
a long or very long lifecycle is intended or much custom coding 
is required.  


Al


Patrick Hohmeyer wrote:
> 
> And JOL wrote :
> 
> First : Asking this on comp.lang.ada is likely to give biased answers ;-)
> 
> Second : What for ? Every language has it's own strenght, so one
> can only give a general answer, that may be completly wrong in your case.
> (In general, I would prefer Ada)
> 
> --
> Patrick Hohmeyer