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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,95ff17b405e35269 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 13:35:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!do.de.uu.net!newsfeed.esat.net!194.125.2.178.MISMATCH!news.iol.ie!not-for-mail From: Barry Kelly Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Kylix (delphi for Linux), a good Ada alternative for GUI application on Linu Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:35:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.125.48.108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iol.ie X-Trace: news.iol.ie 996784529 194.125.48.108 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:29 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:29 BST Organization: Ireland On-Line Customer Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11135 Date: 2001-08-02T20:35:29+00:00 List-Id: In article "Gautier Write-only-address" wrote: > > > I found Kylix (delphi for linux) to be very similar to Ada. > > > It has units > > > (like ada packages), > > >It completely ignores all elaboration issues, IIRC. Handling them is > >up to the programmer, and there isn't any help from the language > >implementation. > > Another important difference is that the "uses" clauses hide similar > entries from the used units as they come; in Ada it becomes an > ambiguity and the compiler requires to make the reference explicit. > E.g. if you have a variable integer X in interface (spec.) of units > A and B, "uses A,B" will have a completely different effect than > "uses B,A". One could cite a lot of such quirks, Please do. Yes, I'm challenging you. I believe you're wrong. > but the main reason > is that all features have been added to a tiny 16-bit compiler > (Turbo Pascal) written in assembler and with a lot of limitations. This statement is incorrect. -- Barry -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Team JEDI: http://www.delphi-jedi.org NNQ - Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings http://web.infoave.net/~dcalhoun/nnq/nquote.html