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: Bob Butler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: fieQNXq8l/HAHilIEZwabA.user.gioia.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29774 Date: 2016-03-15T10:51:39+00:00 List-Id: On 2016-03-14, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > 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? Sure, you can run Turbo Pascal under DOS on real hardware or emulated. > Something tells me they won't. Ada sources from the same period of time > still do. There's a little bit of a difference there. Turbo Pascal was a proprietary language not a standardized one. Bob