Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?

[Oliver Kleinke <oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de>]

Am Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:40:16 +0200
schrieb Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>:

> Le Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:37:27 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)  
> <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
> 
> > Le Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:08:16 +0200, Gour <gour@atmarama.net> a
> > écrit:
> >> By looking at the table comparing the two languages
> >> (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD), it
> >> seems to me they are pretty close without any having some
> >> outstanding features which would be insurmountable.
> >
> > The table says there is no unit testing in Ada while it says D
> > provides it. At least they are wrong about Ada, as there is AUnit
> > (comes in two incompatible different flavours, the FSF and GPL
> > ones, but it's there), which as its name suggest, is to Ada, what
> > JUnit is to Java.
> 
> The same with Guaranteed initialization. Ada has the unknown
> discriminant, which force initialization, and has the
> initialization/finalization or controlled types.
> 
> I guess there are other errors in this table. I won't try to search
> for all, at least the existence of error is pointed to your attention.

And then there is the 'Normalize_Scalars'.. There are a lot more
mistakes in that table. Quote: "They're not trying to sell you on Ada;
trying to sell you on D."