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From: Dufr <dufriz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 00:04:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-06T00:04:12-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c37fb278-e7e9-4687-ae49-1addfc96760d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b478db8c-2eda-43fc-a3b3-aeca2a634bf2@googlegroups.com>

The reasons you guys gave in favor of Ada are all pretty solid, no doubt. And yet, I am not fully convinced yet, because:

a hobbiyst learner needs a lot of support, and from what I have seen Object Pascal (in the form of Free Pascal) has a much larger community of enthusiasts than Ada, with a very active forum.
The Ada community consists mostly in highly-qualified professionals (engineers, scientists, etc), whose contributions are very valuable, BUT perhaps not so useful for a hobbyist.
By simply comparing this Ada Google Group with Free Pascal / Lazarus forums, one can quickly see that, apart from being much more active, the Free Pascal 
forum has myriads of posts of a very practical nature (tons of code snippets, problems and solutions, etc). In short, one really gets one's hands dirty quick with the Free Pascal's forum.
By contrast, the posts on this Google Group are, one the whole, much more technical and abstract. This is not to find fault with them, of course.

I am just wondering whether Ada, which is no doubt a superior language from the technical point of view, is really for me - considering all the practical hurdles that a learner has to face, vis-a-vis the fact that the expectation of receiving practical support from the Ada community *seems* more limited than with Object Pascal.
I hope no one gets offended by this post.
Feel free to criticize and debunk my assumptions.

Cheers



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-06  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04  6:59 Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Dufr
2013-07-04  9:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-04 11:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-07-04 15:50   ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 14:34   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:18     ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 11:48 ` john
2013-07-04 14:00   ` AdaMagica
2013-07-04 14:22     ` john
2013-07-04 14:31       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-04 18:18         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-04 19:04           ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-04 20:24             ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-04 20:36               ` Shark8
2013-07-05 21:20               ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-05 23:39                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-27 14:47           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:24             ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 18:49         ` john
2013-07-04 15:49 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-04 16:00 ` Lucretia
2013-07-04 17:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-05 21:39 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-06  7:04 ` Dufr [this message]
2013-07-06 15:53   ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-06 17:41   ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-06 18:59     ` Shark8
2013-07-06 18:36   ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-07-06 22:19   ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-07  8:43     ` Mike H
2013-07-08 13:53   ` Marc C
2013-08-27 14:50   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 16:50     ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 17:02       ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 20:27       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 12:05         ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 21:08       ` Gour
2013-08-27 22:57         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28  8:54           ` Gour
2013-08-28  9:35             ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 10:48               ` Web-UI for Ada applications Gour
2013-08-28 11:32                 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-28 11:54                   ` Gour
2013-08-28 12:05                   ` G.B.
2013-08-28 16:13                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 15:54                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 14:08                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 15:34               ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-29  9:51                 ` Web-UI for Ada applications Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-27 23:17         ` Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:37         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:40           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28  0:04             ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-08-28  6:28           ` Simon Wright
2013-09-01  3:04           ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-09-01  3:48             ` Shark8
2013-08-28  8:02         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28  9:01           ` Gour
2013-08-28  9:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 10:42               ` Gour
2013-07-07  4:14 ` Patrick
2013-08-27 14:23 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2016-03-14 15:29 ` girobusan
2016-03-14 18:19   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-03-14 18:57     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-14 23:52       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-15 10:51       ` Bob Butler
2016-03-15 21:51         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-16 11:07           ` Bob Butler
2016-03-16 21:22             ` Ludovic Brenta
2016-03-17  1:08               ` brbarkstrom
2016-03-17  7:59               ` Bob Butler
2016-03-17  8:36                 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-03-15  9:04     ` egarrulo
2016-03-15  9:34       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15  9:56         ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:23           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15 10:31             ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:53               ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 13:18                 ` G.B.
2016-03-15 13:52                   ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 14:28                     ` G.B.
2016-03-15 14:31                       ` egarrulo
2016-03-17 14:59                         ` sjaniska
2016-03-15 17:50                       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-03-16 15:43                     ` Jeremiah
2016-03-15 14:38                   ` G.B.
2016-03-15 17:33               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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