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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:12:50 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: XcEXHrwb4/N5lNcnPxdL7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1718 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182268 Date: 2013-07-04T04:12:50-05:00 List-Id: On 7/4/2013 1:59 AM, Dufr wrote: > Which is better for an amateur programmer, Object Pascal or Ada? > > My worry about Ada is that it will entail too much overhead in terms of learning, >because of the strict rules, whereas programming in Object Pascal is said to be easier. >Or, at least, this is what I have heard. > Is my understanding correct? > > Is there a reason why I may want to prefer Ada over Object Pascal (again, >remembering that I am just a hobbyist)? > > Thanks > Object Pascal still around? I thought it is gone. Or do you mean Delphi? but I thought that is gone also, Borland sold all its Pascal stuff. Googling around shows that it is now called Embarcadero Delphi. Or do you mean Free Pascal? Is that OO also? I myself liked Turbo Pascal very much in the good old days, was fun programming in it. --Nasser