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From: Bob Horvath <bob@horvath.com>
Subject: Re: Current Ada strengths - was Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!!
Date: 1997/10/30
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Steve Ropa wrote:

> On 28 Oct 1997, Robert S. White wrote:
>
> >  Ada's current weak points, IMHO / IME, are in "wizard smart" GUI
> > code generation.
>
> Personally, I would like to see less emphasis on wizards anyway.  I have
> had too many developers tell me they knew what they were doing, but when I
> took their wizards away, they were lost!

I have often wondered the same thing.  I head people talk about IDEs and
coming from a vi/make environment, I wonder what I am missing, if anything.
Perhaps these are two different things.

It seems to me that if you know language, you don't need an IDE.  And if you
need an IDE, then you don't know the language.