Re: What about Ada?

[afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson)]

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.

 I'm not even going to ask you what limitations you have found in ASM
 because I don't want to know.

>-What would be the reasons for me to use Ada?

 Either someone is paying you to use it or you feel comfortable using it,
 what other reasons are there?

>-How portable is it?

 Hmm, Not sure since they just developed another standard for Ada, whats
 that like 10 now or something?

>-Are there "Integerated Developers enviroments" available?

 But of corse.

>-Does it use DOS Seg:Ofs memory scheme's, PMode, 32-bit flat?

 If it runs in Dos is hardly has a choice, but the GNAT package from
 GNU is a 32Bit system so no it doesn't use Intel's 16Bit hack to
 make use 20Bit address, it just uses a 32Bit pointer which gives you what
 4GB to choose from?

>-Can you use it in Windows? For windows?

 I believe I saw an Ada compiler for Win 3.x in programmer's paradise about
 4 months ago, but don;t quote me on that.

>-How good is it's database support?

 It was originally use by the millitary, I'd say its got a good chance
 of being Database friendly, now DBASE, etc. friendly is another story.

>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:-(

 OK, you want to find out about Ada? Here is a URL actually here is 
 2 URLS that shoudl supply you with ample amounts of data

 ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/simtel/msdos/ada - grab the tutorial
 http://www.afn.org/~afn03257 - follow the 3 language list entries for
                                info on more languages than you can imagine.