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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 19:52:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.72!wnfilter2!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B1EED20.C607AB28@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 02:52:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.82.162.77 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 991882376 12.82.162.77 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 02:52:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 02:52:56 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8285 Date: 2001-06-07T02:52:56+00:00 List-Id: "Beard, Frank" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Scott [mailto:Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com] > > > Hi, > > So why doesn't someone put together a "Visual Ada" product integrated > > with Visual Studio and mass market it? They did it for Fortran... > > That's what Aonix ObjectAda is, but I think for the past year or more > the marketing has become somewhat deficient. About two years ago I was helping an experienced Visual C++ developer use the Aonix ObjectAda tools. He recognized the Aonix interface as being a rather old version of Visual Studio. He really liked using Visual Studio. His answer was to make a few customizations of the Visual Studio configuration files, allowing the current version to fully support development using ObjectAda. To his amazement, the standard Visual Studio debugger worked better on ObjectAda than it did on Visual C++. He saw more detailed information about arrays, collections (records in Ada, classes in C++), and better dereferencing of Ada access types than C++ pointers and references. He immediately appreciated Ada. He also liked the matrix manipulation packages he found and downloaded to help him produce Kalman filters. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA