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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: egarrulo Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:04:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1BKSGJbnmaMygrrvq2NEvwHhCnDLLCkep81AxEPFjxfKV7/LHA Cancel-Lock: sha1:hoh/G0Hl8XIBVTvvz4FuKRQy/FA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29768 Date: 2016-03-15T10:04:26+01:00 List-Id: On 14/03/16 19:19, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > On 03/14/2016 08:29 AM, girobusan@gmail.com wrote: >> I'm a hobbyist. I've chosen Pascal (Free Pascal) because it is: >> >> a) Cross platform >> b) Has a cross-platform GUI builder (Lazarus) and it's pretty nice >> >> I can develop an app on linux, than just drop my sources to Mac and get a working Mac app. That's amazing. > > I can do the same with Ada. Indeed, I had a GUI Ada program that compiled and > ran on Windows and Linux with no code changes a couple of decades ago. As usual, > other languages are playing catch up. > Lazarus is not a cross-platform GUI builder only. It is a complete IDE that can cross-compile. AFAIK, Ada lacks a comparable proposition.