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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.140.43.75 with SMTP id d69mr6153687qga.5.1458203811175; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:36:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.40.227 with SMTP id a3mr124034obl.14.1458203811117; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!y89no7791327qge.0!news-out.google.com!k1ni1020igd.0!nntp.google.com!nt3no2361573igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:36:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1205:502e:b3d0:3957:b39a:e47a:ea9e; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1205:502e:b3d0:3957:b39a:e47a:ea9e References: <87zityce4n.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:36:51 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29818 Date: 2016-03-17T01:36:50-07:00 List-Id: Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 08:59:52 UTC+1, Bob Butler a =E9crit=A0: > I already explained some possible reasons for FPC's non-portability. I th= ink > my paragraph above explains things clearly enough and I don't agree with > your statement here. It is valuable to have a toolchain that supports > standards whether or not it also supports a superset. If it can warn on > extensions so much the better. If not, it's more than worth price paid. I think there is a confusion here. The dialects listed here: Free Pascal dialect (default) =20 FPC mode with Object Pascal support =20 Delphi 7 compatibility mode =20 TP/BP 7.0 compatibility mode =20 Macintosh Pascal dialects compatibility mode =20 are *not* supersets of any of both ISO Pascals. They are merely supersets o= f a "Hello World"-size subset of these ISO Pascals. You don't need to go too far into details: the modularity is fully incompat= ible. What is called "unit" in the descendants of UCSD Pascal listed above = is called "module" in ISO 10206 and... nothing at all in the previous ISO 7= 185. It is not just syntax: the rules for "uses"-ing a "unit" are completel= y different of those for "import"-ing a "module"... _________________________=20 Gautier's Ada programming=20 http://sf.net/users/gdemont/