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From: wtwolfe@hubcap.UUCP (Bill Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Request for recommendations: syntax-directed editors
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Date: 14 Jan 89 18:24:09 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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   We here at Clemson have just evaluated Xinotech's Program Composer,
   which was recently recommended in comp.software-eng, as a syntax-directed
   editor for Ada, and found to our great disappointment that this product
   comes with its own environment and considers the compiler to be a
   subprogram.  Since Ada compilers also tend to assume control of the
   environment, the user would be forced to do a lot of switching of
   environments due to this problem of too many Chiefs and not enough
   Indians.  We are therefore looking for an Ada syntax-directed editor
   which will integrate more smoothly into the Ada environment.  Ideally,
   of course, the editor would communicate directly with the compiler
   in order to avoid duplicating all the parsing effort, but we'll be
   happy for now if we can just get something that is integrated to the
   point that the user doesn't have to switch environments all the time.

   Anybody have any favorite SDEs they'd like to recommend?  



                                   Thanks in advance,


                                         Bill Wolfe

                                  wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu