Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>]

"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org> writes:
> Maybe Delphi is better, but I wouldn't know. What features/capabilities
> does it have that you think makes it superior?

Besides the language, which aside from the lack of destructors, is more
amenable to an Ada programmer, the interface to the OS, and all the support
libraries are much better designed.

With C++ one gets the nitty gritty code in your face immediately -- not
because of language problems, but because that's the way VC does it (e.g. try
setting up some automation objects and note all of the manual reference
increments and decrements that must be done, even with the OLE dispatch
classes).

With VB nothing is in your face, but as soon as you need good control of
things (which is all too often) the programmer has to do some extreme
contortions to get things done.

With Delphi, about 80% of the time the presupplied classes are good
enough. When you need to extend/change things, you can do so in a reasonable,
well designed way.

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