Re: Ada for 1st year students

[christoph.grein@eurocopter.com]

> And project files are completely unecessary and inconvient. As you
> know Ada is designed in such a way that all the dependencies are
> described in the program text.

Ada describes only the dependences among Ada units. It has nothing to
say about where these units are. gnatmake has switches to tell it
where to look. Projects are just another means (and IMO with much
better readability) to tell where to find the units.

> Fortunately gnatmake understands this
> and works fine sans project file.

Yeah, with a lot of -I switches...

> I also find the outline window uncessary and inconvenient. It is
> doubling what is already there in the program text.

I have to deal with a lot of units not written by me with sometimes
about 20 or more subprograms in them. The outline view enables quick
navigation among them.

> In my opinion this new trend of IDEs ruined program text editing and
> viewing.

Hm, that's just your opinion, that's OK.

But do not confound this with e.g. the Java-like documentation. There
a people doing the same for Ada - an IMHO absolutely silly
undertaking. Ada has (contrary to Java) separate specs and bodies, so
I prefer reading the specs directly instead of some generated junk
documentation files.

> Now jGRASP is another story. I thing they got it right.

They indeed have a nice way to present code :-)