Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

"karl bowl" <karl.bowl@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> I would like to ask anybody to tell me about advantages or disadvantages
of
> ADA(95) over pascal or modula(2).

From my experience with Ada 95 and Pascal

Adavantages of Ada 95:
  Ada is one language, Pascal has may dialects.
  Ada includes tasking as a part of the language.
  Ada has stronger typing.
  Ada provides better control over procedure parameter access modes.
  Ada includes modules.
  Ada is more portable than Pascal
  Ada has no equivalent to Pascal's "with" statement (if you've maintained a
lot of Pascal code, you know why this is an advantage).
  Since Ada was mandated by the DOD a continued presence is assured.
  Ada includes machine representation clauses.

Advantages of Pascal
  Pascal includes "Sets" as a part of the language.
  Pascal is more popular (Delphi, Turbo Pascal)

Most of the features (except stronger typing) that are available in Ada are
available in one way or another in various dialects of Pascal.  They are
just not portable and often awkward.

I hope this helps,
Steve
(The Duck)

> Many thanks in advance
>
> Nic
>
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