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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58b70527dfe85db8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-04 21:53:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Al Christians Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal (Delphi) or ADA??????? Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:54:41 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3C5F73A1.3FA1FD29@easystreet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19623 Date: 2002-02-04T21:54:41-08:00 List-Id: 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