From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,WEIRD_QUOTING autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!lYb45GyKYHhbNrJypubP7A.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada versus Pascal Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 18:24:21 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <744e718c-0872-49c7-a3ad-2640ae262e4cn@googlegroups.com> <42fde091-838b-4359-868a-0e7e4662e439n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="28692"; posting-host="lYb45GyKYHhbNrJypubP7A.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Secret Agent Man X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63079 List-Id: 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.? -- ──┏━━━━┓──┏━━┓───┏━━┓── ┌────────────────────────┐ ┌────────┐ ──┗━━┓─┃──┗┓─┃───┗┓─┃── │ Spooky Mart [chan] 711 │ │ always │ ─────┃─┃──┏┛─┗┓──┏┛─┗┓─ │ https://bitmessage.org │ │ open │ ─────┗━┛──┗━━━┛──┗━━━┛─ └────────────────────────┘ └────────┘