Re: an interested business-oriented programmer

[Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com>]

But, if we are talking about business-oriented programming, 
does Aonix implement interfaces.COBOL and Annex F ("information
systems", which includes decimal data)?

The competition is COBOL and/or either Java or C++ with a decimal
numbers class library.

Al

James Rogers wrote:
> 
> "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