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From: 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
Subject: Re: Ada versus Pascal
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 18:24:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sl4psf$s0k$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 42fde091-838b-4359-868a-0e7e4662e439n@googlegroups.com

On 10/24/21 11:51 AM, Gautier write-only address wrote:
> Le dimanche 24 octobre 2021 à 06:33:15 UTC+2, Jerry a écrit :
>> This thread began as a comparison of Ada and original Pascal. So how does Ada compare to Free Pascal Compiler and Delphi which have gone far past original Pascal?
> 
> You find a very partial answer in the comparison here:
> http://p2ada.sourceforge.net/pascada.htm#tables
> Made around year 2000, so ~30 after original Pascal but ~20 years ago.
> 
> Note that both FPC and Delphi descend from Turbo Pascal, which is itself completely different from other extensions like ISO Extended Pascal.
> In a nutshell, Pascal is an extreme example of fragmentation of a language into dialects.
> Ada is on the other extremity: you can build the same source sets (I mean exactly the same sources, without preprocessing gimmicks) on completely different compilers & OSes.

I think that answers the important original query.

Does modern Ada have facility for writing boot loaders, inline Assembly,
kernels, etc.?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-22  3:29 Ada versus Pascal 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22  6:18 ` ldries46
2021-10-22  9:59   ` 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22 15:12     ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 15:47       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-23  7:13       ` ldries46
2021-10-23 14:08       ` Simon Wright
2021-10-22  6:40 ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-22  8:57 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 11:49 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2021-10-22 17:05 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-23  0:29   ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-23  1:17     ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-23 17:24     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-24  7:04       ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-22 20:00 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24  4:33 ` Jerry
2021-10-24  6:32   ` ldries46
2021-10-24 16:51   ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24 23:24     ` 711 Spooky Mart [this message]
2021-10-25  8:23       ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-25  8:40         ` Luke A. Guest
2021-10-25 13:34           ` Luke A. Guest
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