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: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: Ray Blaak Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663538315 Sender: blaak@TORUS References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> <4Oxp5.428$Ze5.13712@nnrp3.sbc.net> <39A6B3FF.73538A0E@acm.org> <2IBp5.1573$OE.204952@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> <39A7C4B7.E6D655C1@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bc.tac.net 967481515 209.53.149.68 (Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:51:55 PDT) Organization: The Transcend NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:51:55 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" 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. -- Cheers, The Rhythm is around me, The Rhythm has control. Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me, blaak@infomatch.com The Rhythm has my soul.