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=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad9ed6e0a9ccc4e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-01 06:34:52 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!noc.near.net!inmet!asp!mg From: mg@asp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart) Subject: Re: BORLAND ADA Message-ID: Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:34:52 GMT Date: 1995-03-01T14:34:52+00:00 List-Id: Jean D. Ichbiah (ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net) wrote: : In article <3is0gk$q4q@news1.delphi.com> tmoran@bix.com writes: : >From: tmoran@bix.com : >Subject: RE: BORLAND ADA : >Date: 27 Feb 1995 07:55:00 GMT : >What is OWL? a thick Windows binding? Where is a description in : >more detail than an ad but cheaper than buying it. ;) : If you want the level one description, you have just given it. It is : an abstraction layer that is much higher than the Microsoft : Foundation Classes (themselves a little higher than the Windows : API). : For the level 2 description, you will need to invest a few hours : so you may as well get a book on the subject or the Borland : Pascal compiler. : Jean D. Ichbiah It sounds like the two best Windows development environments are Visual C++ and Delphi. Two questions: - is there a good place to read an in-depth comparison between the two, without going out and buying both? - does anybody have an idea about the relative number of developers using these two environments? Mitch Gart