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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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
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