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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8dffd960b2d9594e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: sampson@nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson) Subject: Re: Apex command-line (was Re: Decent ADA compiler on a Mac) Date: 1995/03/30 Message-ID: <1995Mar30.004720.21787@nosc.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100815569 sender: news@nosc.mil references: <3kb9rs$622@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3kupk6$soq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3l21hv$t0h@rational.rational.com> <3l6f3k$2qr@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> organization: Computer Sciences Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3l6f3k$2qr@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar wrote: > >"you must inform the person passing you information [that Rational has a > complete command line interface]" > >I assume they know, I think it was someone from rational! The background >here was that I was arguing that a command line capability was essential >for convenient use of a compiler. Someone said, "no -- that's not true, >look at the IDE's from Rational etc." In fact it appears that the design >of APEX confirms rather than questions my original point! > >Now the question is: does anyone have a compiler that has no command line >interface AT ALL tha they consider convenient to use ... I don't know about a _compiler_ with no command line interface or "convenient to use", but Symantec's old Object Pascal integrated environ- ment for the Mac had no command line interface. You entered the environ- ment in either of the two standard Mac ways and once there you manoeuvred around within your "project" using the usual Mac menu items and dialogs. I was quite satisfied with it, except for the problems inherent in the language. Charlie