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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab26e93e5cda5b8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Eric Hughes Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GnatBench (from GPL edition) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <27955f05-e10c-4a2f-933f-03eceff62a79@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <83f3c6f9-603d-45ea-9653-bd4790f84871@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <3mqiu3pdt12sirmn5dko6mjo1snr3infrh@4ax.com> <52ilu39q6mje4df8csr9odpkick389alh2@4ax.com> <8ijtu314uf1j34hc837qkgtgd4lqbr0q5l@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.70.57.218 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207023594 26893 127.0.0.1 (1 Apr 2008 04:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 04:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=166.70.57.218; posting-account=5RIiTwoAAACt_Eu87gmPAJMoMTeMz-rn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20698 Date: 2008-03-31T21:19:54-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 31, 6:09 pm, "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > If I wanted to use Java, I wouldn't be here in the first place. If you can't > program it in Ada, it isn't worth writing. Lucky you. > I understand the market pressures, but on a practical basis, I don't > understand the big deal about bloated IDEs anyway. Everything that is > worthwhile in an IDE is language and compiler-specific anyway [...] My commercial work is mostly in C++ and Java. The benefit I take from Eclipse is exactly that I don't have to remember arbitrary details of one-IDE-per-environment. Eric