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: 103376,419db68801de4a5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-27 22:47:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DBCDD33.7080800@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New to ADA References: <3dbcd6f1_1@corp.newsgroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:47:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.33.190 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1035787651 12.86.33.190 (Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:47:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:47:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30180 Date: 2002-10-28T06:47:31+00:00 List-Id: Bill Cunningham wrote: > I'd like to investigate ada a little I'm used to C and C++. Is ada as > powerful as C++. Does it have inheritance, OOP, classes or something > similar. I know one command with ada 'with'. Is there a compiler for windows > 98? > I don't use interpreters. Yes. Oh, you probably wanted more details. Ada is as powerful as C++, even more powerful when you consider that Ada has built in syntax for concurrency, while C++ does not. Ada does have inheritance, OOP, and something similar to classes. I use the GNAT compiler on my Win 98 laptop. It works very well. Gnat is a compiler in the GNU compiler collection. I will be immodest enough to suggest an introduction to Ada that I recently wrote. You can read it at http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php This introduction is NOT a full tutorial on Ada. It is merely an introduction to some of the major Ada features. Other tutorials can be found at http://www.adapower.com Jim Rogers