Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>]

"David Botton" <David@Botton.com> writes:

> <steve@nospam.ada.eu.org> wrote in message
> news:8o7top$4sb@drn.newsguy.com...
> > I am not sure if it is
> > an ISO or ANSI standard language though.
> 
> It is not and its syntax and symantics change frequently between versions
> (many times to the surprise of developers :-)
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Provided the application doesn't use any OS specific bindings, ActiveX
> controls, or any third party units. Also, given statements by Borland to not
> expect 100% source code compatability don't expect the language to be 100%
> compatable or even the GUI units.
> 
> On the other hand, an application developed using Ada 95 and GtkAda is 100%
> source code compatable between Linux and Windows versions. Using the POSIX
> package for NT and Linux and you have cross platform on most of the OS
> specific stuff. Of course you can use ActiveX controls only on the Windows
> side (Using my thick Win32 framework, GWindows, you can easily add ActiveX
> controls to GTKAda on Win32, see my example on the GWindows page at
> http://www.adapower.com/gwindows)
> 
> David Botton
> 
> 

Interesting. But which POSIX interface implementation are you
referring to?

--
"Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
 infinite loop without a faked up condition.  The idea being that in Ada
 the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation."
                                             -Larry Wall

Ole-Hj. Kristensen