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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d8567bda6086509f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson) Subject: Re: What about Ada? Date: 1996/08/09 Message-ID: <4ue8fu$1c4@huron.eel.ufl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173037792 references: reply-to: afn03257@afn.org nntp-posting-user: afn03257 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: H Marx 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.