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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:18:35 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:15:28 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="22976"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18oTvRqCThYBuaTcUUvDV2Wtjn9BmFhlIA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:AcSR17hyCKj5qEnYCjv5v08mGTw= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29776 Date: 2016-03-15T14:18:35+01:00 List-Id: On 15.03.16 11:53, egarrulo wrote: > On 15/03/16 11:31, egarrulo wrote: >> I agree that the background of people is what matters the most > > But then, when someone comes and asks such a generic question, he > obviously doesn't know what he is talking about, and he elicits a > matching answer. It is interesting that some still maintain the idea that portable GUI programming has a place. It hasn't, with a possible exception of big corporate legacy. Nor does any of the mainstream languages define anything in the language that specifically addresses GUI things. This hobby horse is riding towards a dead end, in solitude.