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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Larry Elmore" Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663660048 Distribution: world References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> <39A668AB.26F88375@maths.unine.ch> <39A6ABD9.634308AA@earthlink.net> <39AA2B85.F9A917E8@maths.unine.ch> <39AA6526.A33A4330@acm.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Trace: /wLwTYdDHCmWifMdnyZ0n4XlolPxFVisqHpwdEufuksQCTy4JE4oHXWpTlHAt7G8PLYYBWgoOo7E!BAqVWB8D2yLY1WPGB78Yb4WTl0tHMyhvg8pOZy+77+IKvBMRR0upcEKCA26LZi7VNRKekCiWtYZH!1CJsJ4EnOA== X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:25:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marco van de Voort" wrote in message news:slrn8qksee.oft.marcov@toad.stack.nl... > In article <39AA6526.A33A4330@acm.org>, Marin D. Condic wrote: > > >Ada is kind of like > >"Pascal++" in that the syntax is very much like Pascal's, but it cures > >certain ills that existed there and then added a *lot* more stuff to > >make the language much more powerful. > > Over standard pascal, or over Delphi? Having used both, I'd say Ada is a _serious_ improvement over Delphi's Object Pascal, and of course a much greater improvement over standard Pascal. Larry