Re: An Ada advocacy method

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, I don't know everything about every software development kit on 
the planet, but I did use MSVC++ long enough to have seen that it had 
some really spiffy capabilities. I won't defend its overall quality, but 
I'd recommend that if someone wanted to build an Ada development kit 
that they buy MSVC++ and spend some time learning what it can do. I have 
*never* heard of any Ada development kit that out-of-the-box provides as 
many capabilities (although GPS looks like it has potential) and is as 
nicely integrated as MSVC++.

There might be other environments that exceed MSVC++ - like I said: I 
don't know about all IDEs in the universe. But it sure has a lot going 
for it that Ada would have to work to catch up with. (The MFC alone 
would be a *major* capability enhancement should Ada have something like 
it. And an Ada standard library would likely be far more capable since a 
large chunk of the MFC is devoted to fixing weaknesses in C++ that Ada 
doesn't have.) Most of the pieces are there - they just need to be 
brought together into a single package and made to work together. ACT 
stands a descent chance of doing this with GPS, GtkAda, gdb and maybe 
some other stuff. (Like a database? Certainly a library.) The thing is, 
I'd like to see Ada have *some* of these components/capabilities 
"Standard" across implementations.

MDC


Wes Groleau wrote:
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
>> (Wait a minute... Wes: Is this a troll? :-)
> 
> 
> Uh, could be ...
> 
> Hey, Mac fans!  How much of what Marin asked for
> is in the OS X Deb Kit plus GNAT ?
> 


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