Patrick wrote:
I fell in love with Ada about 14 months ago. Including the cardboard
box, i now have 53lbs of Ada books(A few still to read), I am planning
on diving into Pascal in this way too and I want to mix Ada and Pascal.
Like a number of other people around here, I've used Modula-2
extensively in the past. I've also done a bit of selling and supporting
for Ada, back in the days when there weren't any full implementations
that ran on PCs.
Realistically, Ada and Modula-x are dead.
Practically all of the things that made Ada and Modula-2 notable in the
early 1980s- strong typing, modularity, exception handling etc.- have
been recognised as "Good Things" and implemented in other languages.
Also the various adjunct programs that were specified for a full Ada
implementation have generally been implemented in IDEs for other
languages (with a particular nod here to the very wide range of programs
flitting about the Java ecosystem).
Just about everybody agrees that Ada and Modula-2 were praiseworthy in
avoiding Pascal's "dangling else" problem, and some would argue that
Pascal implementations could usefully have a switch to allow that
alternative syntax. But apart from that, I'd strongly caution against
spending too much time on them except for pure hobby/research interest.
I am having some trouble compiling gtk pascal examples, the linker can't
find -lgtk etc. It looks like it is a naming issue and I can create
links to get myself out of trouble however,
As an adjunct to anything written by more experienced users such as Sven
and Michael: you really need to tell us what version of FPC you're
running, and what operating system etc. you're running on.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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