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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:52:31 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> 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.

And even more importantly, they'll still work, too. There's very little 
chance of running into something that's changed in Ada in the intervening 
years, and even less chance that it would change how the program works.

                                  Randy.