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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 662692512 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> <39A668AB.26F88375@maths.unine.ch> <39A6ABD9.634308AA@earthlink.net> <8o7top$4sb@drn.newsguy.com> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (FreeBSD) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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.