Re: Code Formatters

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <55q621$v6s@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>, Dave Smith <david.h.smith@gecm.com> writes:

> Surely what we need are decent development environments with
> good language sensitive editors. These should be able to read
> a file containing the "rules" to be used for layout, the indenting,
> capitalization, etc. being done as the code is typed in. 

Another dimension is syntax coloring.  If an editor can be set to
do _only_ syntax coloring someone gets aid dealing with code but
does not automatically disturb placement.

BBEdit seems likely to get syntax coloring for Ada, which to me
is actually more significant than the same for an editor provided
with an Ada compiler, where one would expect such support.  Also
I would prefer editors from people devoted to editors as they will
likely do a better job for cut and paste, etc.

LSE on VMS of course has done Ada for years, although I do not
use it because I have another favorite editor on VMS. DEC did
Ada 83, of course, but those templates can be updated for Ada 95
by anyone who cares to do so.

Larry Kilgallen