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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868fe8fe0ec86c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-09 00:46:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: smalltalk vs. Ada Date: 09 Jun 2001 09:36:40 +0200 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: References: <3B214CF2.1CBE6C04@mediaone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mix-velizy-107-3-14.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 992072213 8606 193.249.46.14 (9 Jun 2001 07:36:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2001 07:36:53 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.103 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8480 Date: 2001-06-09T07:36:53+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis writes: > I have. It's a pleasure - much less "plumbing" to do OOP compared to Ada, if > that's what you want to do. The MI facilities work really well (unlike C++), > the syntax is clean like Ada, and DbC is very useful (though pragma Assert in > Ada gets you most of the way there). It's much weaker in terms of portability > of code between compilers than Ada is. And it's not quite there yet for > concurrency, or IMO real-time and systems programming. Garbage collection also > removes a lot of plumbing for general kinds of applications. If you can't > tell, Ada and Eiffel are my favorite languages. I second that. And for me too Ada and Eiffel are my favorite languages. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"