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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:58:22 +0100
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Gautier schrieb:
> 
> Alfred Hilscher:
> 
> > Compared to Modula-2 I see the following disadvantages:
> 
> Now some advantages of Ada:
> 
> - usable modularity (thank to "use"). In Modula-2 you have to
>   write things like "FROM Math IMPORT Cos, Sin, ...."
>   "FROM IO IMPORT WriteLn, ReadLn, ..." if you don't want to
>   prefix everything.

Or you write FROM Math IMPORT ALL;

> - a standard library. In Modula-2 it is the empty set.
>   OK, there are more or less comparable Text_IO (IO)
>   but some compilers have "WRITE", others "Write"...
>   since M2 is case-sensitive, you reach the zero-portability
>   level. Even the common denominator of all BASIC's provide
>   more...
 
Ok, Modula has less then Ada. But - Ada has less than C, C++ or Java.

> - available compilers
> 
> About the big size of executables, there are other Ada compilers
> than GNAT (with smart linking for instance).

Well, I work with Aonix special edition sometimes, but if you do not use
the shared library then the exe file size is still bigger than that from
Modula.

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