From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c84654714c2f5945 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: randomm@mindless.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition - on the plus side Date: 13 Oct 2005 21:44:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1129265087.468844.79180@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.132.248.220 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1129265092 17206 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2005 04:44:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:44:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.132.248.220; posting-account=-Sj3sQ0AAABEK3BdTcWa5Mg7z0ApS0Ln Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5629 Date: 2005-10-13T21:44:47-07:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > My experience: > > GNAT GPL Edition includes the first version of GPS I have run on Windows > that I haven't removed after a few days of frustration. I think GPS is dreadful; it has an outmoded look and feel and I am probably missing something, but it never seems to remember the most recent project, instead defaulting to the BIN installation directory which is very frustrating. When it comes time to buy a compiler and IDE, I'll be looking for a toolset which is a little friendlier and more modern-looking. Even though it's not fancy, John English's GnatIDE 1.4 is a lot easier to use, at least with small projects. (Thanks, Doc!) It seems to be smarter about things like naming Ada body files, etc. > The compiler seems to just plain work (as usual). True enough... I'm new to Ada, but I've been writing code for a long time. This may be a testament to Ada standards as much as to GNAT, but I haven't seen any compiler (aside from GNAT 3.15p) which ate up everything in any example I cut-and-pasted from any source (online tutorial, text book, etc.) That is certainly an extremely valuable aspect of Ada and GNAT- uniformity is good for beginners and pros alike. snip > IMHO the folks at AdaCore have done a great job. Ditto! And you can't beat the price. Rand