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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d5f9068427b288 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 13:35:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!do.de.uu.net!newsfeed.esat.net!194.125.2.178.MISMATCH!news.iol.ie!not-for-mail From: Barry Kelly Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Kylix (delphi for Linux), a good Ada alternative for GUI application on Linux. Message-ID: References: <9k1r4j02f9q@drn.newsguy.com> <87lml6b45w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:35:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.125.48.108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iol.ie X-Trace: news.iol.ie 996784530 194.125.48.108 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:30 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:30 BST Organization: Ireland On-Line Customer Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11137 Date: 2001-08-02T20:35:30+00:00 List-Id: In article <87lml6b45w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Florian Weimer wrote: > > strong typing. > > AFAIK the type system of Object Pascal is based on structural > equivalence (except for classes), so it's not as strongly typed as it > could be. Object Pascal typing is based on name equivalence; however, untyped pointers (Pointer) are compatible with objects (TObject & descendants), which is pretty miserable. > > fully OO langauge, All objects in kylix are rooted in one base > > object (like Java). > > I don't think this is true. It is true for objects. All the primitives from Pascal are there too though, and they aren't descendant from TObject (but they aren't "objects" either). > > Support single inhertance (like Ada and Java). > > There are some obscure things like properties and stuff. "Obscure"? That's a pejorative term. Perhaps you'd like to expand. > > But it is very easy to develop GUI and database applications with it, very > > good RAD env too. They have done a good job with the libC unit that allows > > direct call to all the C library functions. > > > > I think Kylix could be a good alternative to Ada on Linux. > > Hmm, I don't use Ada as a RAD tool, quite the contrary. ;-) RAD is very good for GUIs; that's about it. -- Barry -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Team JEDI: http://www.delphi-jedi.org NNQ - Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings http://web.infoave.net/~dcalhoun/nnq/nquote.html