Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: bug in VFX --- IF does't work Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:03:07 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <2e398151-3bb9-4827-8b25-2065117703f1@googlegroups.com> <551bd2e8.431024070@news.eternal-september.org> <0489b859-b786-45b8-a44f-2795378f59d6@googlegroups.com> <551d76ee.538549100@news.eternal-september.org> <143e9857-6175-4c12-95cb-cff38fdb7227@googlegroups.com> <551e3467.587054772@news.eternal-september.org> <7615f351-99f7-405d-b2dd-ec06b035f1e5@googlegroups.com> <87384g7bun.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <87egnz5g1i.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <877ftq5whl.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7xyQEOT84Gp7s6ueAg6bFgwDr9iGUJgB5LpGG7SBgVS4pA2g18 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8MQNqMb4sSv9HWxgUOJIW01MAtk= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <877ftq5whl.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:38005 Paul Rubin schrieb: > Hans-Peter Diettrich writes: >> The avr-gcc comes with C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, ADA ... I want binary >> compatibility, so that my Pascal can use the C++ classes provided by >> the avr libraries. > > Is there a reason you want to use Pascal instead of Ada? Pascal is very > restrictive. Ada is a Pascal-like language that is much more suited for > systems level programmng. Here is a good article about it: > > http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html Thanks for your kick into my lazy a^w back ;-) Until now I had misplaced ADA under overly bloated (~Algol) and verbose (~COBOL) languages, and was very surprised that instead it's almost what I had in mind - and much more! :-) DoDi