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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Current Ada strengths - was Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <345A3AE1.1432@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286267594 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <635csg$2eu$1@news2.alpha.net> <635u6q$4tk$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <345881C4.640998A4@horvath.com> <63b9aq$de8$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert S. White wrote: > Of course us _REAL_ programmers don't need no stinkin' IDE :-) :-) What you mean "we", paleface? Real programmers are lazy and hate doing the same things repetitively. If I don't have an IDE for my language of choice then I use the macro facilities of my editor to build one. Maybe not fancy, but at least things like automatically dragging in templates for IF at the proper indentation level. The last time I used Ada we saved for more time than it took us to build the tools (written in KEXX and REXX for Mansfield KEDIT). Mind you, I have no use for IDEs that get underfoot or that try to keep me from using particular language features. But I insist on automating the stuff that I know how to do manually and do fairly often. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org