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From: Szymon Guz <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT>
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Georg Bauhaus napisa=B3(a):
> Szymon Guz wrote:
>=20
>> In my opinion this is too much, and some people that I talk to wanted =

>> to develop software using Ada2005 and GTKAda as it was good, cheap and=
=20
>> very good. Now the turn towards Delphi|Builder as it is much cheaper.
>=20
>=20
> This looks like a one-factor analysis to me. As Pascal said,
> you are comparing apples and oranges when you compare Delphi
> and Ada 2005, so there might have been other factors leading
> to the decision. Perhaps like "Every one is ...", "I learned
> Pascal...", etc. Note also the price of Janus/Ada + CLAW,
> it's not too high for what you get.
>=20
> Could you ask your friends what really made them abondon
> Ada, not GNAT?

As far as I know from them:

Price ( GNAT + GTKAda for 5 seats costs about 21.000 euros) while Delphi =

costs about 5.000.

With Delphi you get much more components for:
   - databases
   - visualization
   - GUI

Other needed components you can easily find|buy on the net instead of=20
writing.

I think that's all;


Theese programs where to be some database oriented software and some=20
educational programs (e.g. for learning languages).