Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

<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