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Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:40:16 +0200
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Le Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:37:27 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57)  =

<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a =C3=A9crit:

> Le Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:08:16 +0200, Gour <gour@atmarama.net> a =C3=A9c=
rit:
>> By looking at the table comparing the two languages
>> (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD), it seems t=
o
>> me they are pretty close without any having some outstanding features=

>> which would be insurmountable.
>
> The table says there is no unit testing in Ada while it says D provide=
s  =

> it. At least they are wrong about Ada, as there is AUnit (comes in two=
  =

> incompatible different flavours, the FSF and GPL ones, but it's there)=
,  =

> which as its name suggest, is to Ada, what JUnit is to Java.

The same with Guaranteed initialization. Ada has the unknown discriminan=
t,  =

which force initialization, and has the initialization/finalization or  =

controlled types.

I guess there are other errors in this table. I won't try to search for =
 =

all, at least the existence of error is pointed to your attention.


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
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