Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)]

>classical pascal, it is actually closer to Ada. It has
>threads, it is single inheritance(sp?), multiple interfaces
>(like Java), has 'class' construct, constructor, private, public,
>units (packages?) and many more things. I am not sure if it is
>an ISO or ANSI standard language though.

No it isn't. That is probably the *reason* it is successfull:-) Somehow
standards never caught on under the bulk of Pascal users.
Most use a kind of UCSD dialect (specially the Borland dialects)

>Borland are porting Delphi to Linux now, and it will be released
>this year, they call it 'Kylix' on Linux.

I also thought this, but I read an article about this (from Jeroen Pluimers
last night), and he seemed to suggest that "Kylix" is the codename for the 
linux-port project, and not necessarily for the release product.
But that could be me of course.

>The nice thing about it,
>is that all those current Windows delphi application can now very easily
>be ported to Linux by using Kylix to compile the window delphi source 
>code with Linux/Kylix.

Yup. Only BDE seems to be a prob.

 This is expected to increase the amount of good
>commerical application on Linux in short time, and will help make Linux
>more popular as a desktop platform as well.

Why desktop? Personally I see Linux as a server OS, so the primary target
for Kylix to me seems to be configuration tools of server apps, and
the server apps themselves.