Re: What about Ada?

[bowmanc@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Carl Bowman)]

In article <s2070028.032@alpha.unisa.ac.za>,
H Marx  <MARXH@ALPHA.UNISA.AC.ZA> wrote:
>Hi there,
>I signed onto this list to find out what Ada is about. But so far saw
>only Psacal vs. C vs. Assembler...?
>I use Borland Pascal 7.0 and assembler a lot. But it has limitations.
>-What would be the reasons for me to use Ada?
>-How portable is it?
>-Are there "Integerated Developers enviroments" available?
>-Does it use DOS Seg:Ofs memory scheme's, PMode, 32-bit flat?
>-Can you use it in Windows? For windows?
>-How good is it's database support?
>-Does it allow function and operator overloading?
>-How optimised/fast is the code it produces?
>Someone remarked on the list that Ada does not allow Macro's, but does
>give you the option of using OOP or Procedural. Just like macro's can be
>abused, so can OOP, and I would like to have liked the option of using
>macros. (Pascal does not allow it either:-(
>
>I know I could have found these answers in books as well, but can you
>imagine investing in something that will not even do what you can do
>already?
>
>Cheers,
>Harry Marx.
>UNISA
>South Africa


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