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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.223.198 with SMTP id il6mr18356280qab.7.1378007296393; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:48:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.3.70 with SMTP id a6mr398043iga.16.1378007296202; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!fx3no6383552qab.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni0qas.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no6383544qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:48:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2d63795c-36ee-4da3-af2e-ec377d977227@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: <20130827230816.535a440d@atmarama.noip.me> <2d63795c-36ee-4da3-af2e-ec377d977227@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <712c1a2b-bf48-4d8d-9af5-2a7f35f0bcff@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 03:48:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2226 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183250 Date: 2013-08-31T20:48:15-07:00 List-Id: On Saturday, August 31, 2013 9:04:51 PM UTC-6, Maurizio Tomasi wrote: > On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:37:27 AM UTC+2, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAn= e) wrote: >=20 > > The table says there is no unit testing in Ada while it says D provides= =20 > > it. At least they are wrong about Ada, as there is AUnit (comes in two = =20 > > incompatible different flavours, the FSF and GPL ones, but it's there),= =20 > > which as its name suggest, is to Ada, what JUnit is to Java. >=20 > It is not the same thing. Ada needs an external library, while the D lang= uage provides built-in support. Unit tests can be run by the compiler using= an appropriate switch, see http://dlang.org/unittest.html. IOW, the same difference between Ada's TASK and most C-style languages WRT = concurrency.