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 autolearn=unavailable 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!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:57:42 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ROVmXt7CA4I4JUREQVKd/w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29757 Date: 2016-03-14T19:57:42+01:00 List-Id: On 2016-03-14 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. I have Turbo Pascal sources from early 90's. Would they compile? Something tells me they won't. Ada sources from the same period of time still do. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de