From: ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: Ada versus Pascal
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:18:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nnd$7ef24ce4$14b6c3ad@172701a218b8ba4a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sktb3o$dn1$1@gioia.aioe.org>
Op 22-10-2021 om 5:29 schreef 711 Spooky Mart:
> The little snippets of Ada code I've seen look _alot_ like Pascal.
>
> What degree of learning curve is there to learn Ada, coming from a
> Pascal background? What kind of rough timeframes to get comfortable with
> programming without always looking to the manuals?
>
> Where is the best starting point for a Pascal programmer to get up and
> running with Ada?
>
I have learned programming in 1966/1967 in Algol 60. As seen i the Algol
report that can be found on internet Algol 60 is mostly a language for
defining algorithms. It does not defines Input and Output procedures.
Pascal is one of the languages that have Algol 60 as a predecessor as is
Ada. I did learn Pascal from some course and later on I did learn Ada,
the latter by just reading the book "Software Engineering with Ada" by
Grady Booch. That was Ada 85. The first version of Ada. Ada is stricter
than other languages and is meant to have NO Operating system dependant
items, so if you cannot go around something there must be a package on
each operating system having the same interface everywhere.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 3:29 Ada versus Pascal 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22 6:18 ` ldries46 [this message]
2021-10-22 9:59 ` 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22 15:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 15:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-23 7:13 ` ldries46
2021-10-23 14:08 ` Simon Wright
2021-10-22 6:40 ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-22 8:57 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 11:49 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2021-10-22 17:05 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-23 0:29 ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-23 1:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-23 17:24 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-24 7:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-22 20:00 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24 4:33 ` Jerry
2021-10-24 6:32 ` ldries46
2021-10-24 16:51 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24 23:24 ` 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-25 8:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-25 8:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-10-25 13:34 ` Luke A. Guest
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