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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/03
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In article <7vnhov$g0k$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <7vnf6c$e03$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>> For the MAC, I'd imagine an effort equivalent to cygwin
>> (cygmac?) would remove >=%80 of the problem.
> 
> 80% /= 100% !!!!
> 
> Any solution that does not permit the *possibility* of scripts,
> makefiles etc where appropriate is too broken to consider for
> serious development. Yes, that falls in your 20% but that is
> an important 20%!

Certainly Think Pascal provided a marvelous development environment
without scripting.  Changing from Pascal to Ada does nothing to alter
this.

If it were a GNAT port, the one thing not possible without scripts
would be programmer portability.  It would not look like GNAT on
other platforms, which to some people would be a considerable drawback.

Larry Kilgallen