From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?
Date: 1997/12/03
Date: 1997-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <881119612.87snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 348faacf.18643984@news.thegrid.net
In article <348faacf.18643984@news.thegrid.net> xmobay@thegrid.net writes:
>jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote:
>
>>In article <34802dfc.4229989@news.tiac.net> ichbiah@twsolutions.com writes:
>>
>>>> I'd like to learn to do programming for Windows 95.
>>>>[...] Any recommendations?
>>>
>>>Delphi
>>
>>Odd answer...
>
>Not an odd answer at all. In fact, the answer of someone whose clarity
>of thinking and expertise transcend the need to join Language Cults.
Huh ?
>For programming under Windows 95, Delphi is a far better solution than
>any Ada offering.
Actually, it is still odd since the original statements were:
1. Want to program for Win95
2. Know Ada better than C or C++
3. Now program in Ada for DOS
4. Have access to suitable Ada compilers
5. Have no experience using cross language programming
If you translate this to: I want to develop a GUI front-end application
for Win95, Delphi is indeed a suitable choice given a Ada background and
funding or availability.
If, however, you translate this as: I want to learn to program on the Win32
platform, but know Ada better then C++, than clearly Delphi is a strange
recommendation.
Given the senders background and tone, I translated to the second.
>As someone whose Ada experience precedes the release of Ada 83, I vote
>Delphi.
Didn't know this was a contest :-) but my vote goes to whatever helps the
the original author to archieve his goal best.
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1997-12-03 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada? Jon Jensen
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Richard Toy
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Tri-Ada papers on the web? (was Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?) Ben Brosgol
1998-02-07 0:00 Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada? tmoran
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1998-02-07 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-05 0:00 Tom Moran
1998-02-06 0:00 ` nabbasi
1997-12-02 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29 0:00 Mike Willour
1997-11-29 0:00 Mike Willour
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
[not found] ` <34833E36.5C47@easystreet.com>
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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