From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:52:57 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-08-06T13:52:57-07:00 [thread overview]
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Hello,
Coming from Borland Pascal, the ancestor of Delphi (long time ago :-) ), and other Pascal dialects, I'd say the main improvement with Ada is safety in terms of long-term development. As your code base is growing, you want to know that your code base will survive jumps like a compiler change or an architecture change (like Windows 32 bits to 64 bits, or Windows to Linux, or ...).
There is a comparison (not 100% up-to-date) here http://p2ada.sf.net/pascada.htm
Business, desktop applications ? Sure! It's my day job. And here is a company doing /only/ that: http://konad.de/english.htm . There are probably other Ada shops like that. Anyone ?
Cheers
Gautier
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2012-07-30 11:43 Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language Dufr
2012-07-30 12:12 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 12:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-30 13:27 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 13:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-30 13:50 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 13:55 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-30 13:04 ` francois_fabien
2012-07-30 13:45 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-30 13:55 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-31 14:28 ` Marc C
2012-08-04 14:07 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-30 14:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-07-30 14:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-07-30 15:26 ` Dufr
2012-07-30 16:05 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 16:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-30 22:06 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-31 4:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-03 19:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-03 20:21 ` Brian Drummond
2012-08-04 2:48 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-30 16:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-07-30 16:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-30 18:03 ` Patrick
2012-07-30 19:33 ` Dufr
2012-07-30 20:04 ` Patrick
2012-08-06 9:01 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-08-06 9:15 ` Pascal Obry
2012-08-01 23:57 ` Lucretia
2012-08-06 20:52 ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
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