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: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:34:39 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bqgfK7NL3xTHnr0WRaLl4g.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 6.1; 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:29769 Date: 2016-03-15T10:34:39+01:00 List-Id: On 15/03/2016 10:04, egarrulo wrote: > 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. Right now I'm compiling an Ada project for VxWorks target under Windows, in GPS. [ All this has little or nothing to do with the IDE. Practically any IDE can cross compile. Common problems are with setting up GCC environment to enable cross-compiling, binding and linking. And yes, GPS supports remote debugging, well, if you have guts for using GDB, but that's another story ] -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de