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From: AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: Ada documentation tools.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:38:17 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-11-15T04:38:17-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45458390-1074-4299-8faf-624bfda6db51@p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: J7ednXkvmrCogXzR4p2dnAA@giganews.com

On 15 Nov., 12:40, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-11-15 03:14, AdaMagica wrote:
>
> > So what do you expect from such a tool that the Ada spec does not yet
> > provide?
>
> Mainly I want cross-referenced documentation that is easy to browse. I
> realize that IDEs can provide much of this support but I like having
> documentation that can be read without the help of a specific IDE (for
> example, in any web browser).
>
> Peter

Cross-referencing can best be done via the internal program
representation (ASIS e.g.). Why is a browser to be preferred to an IDE
like GPS? OK, you can use it without a compiler being present. This
seems like a weak reason. Modern software needs the appropriate tools
to read, and for source code, this is the compiler. Would you try to
browse through a HOOD design or UML model created with some tool with
a browser instead of a dedicated tool?



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-14 22:26 Ada documentation tools Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-15  8:14 ` AdaMagica
2010-11-15  9:49   ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-11-15 12:29     ` AdaMagica
2010-11-15 13:06       ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-11-15 14:25         ` AdaMagica
2010-11-15 14:56           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-17 23:06             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-15  9:52   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-15 11:40   ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-15 12:38     ` AdaMagica [this message]
2010-11-15 23:33       ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-12-20 13:02         ` Marco
2010-11-16  1:02       ` Marc A. Criley
2010-11-15 12:56     ` Niklas Holsti
2010-11-15 23:19       ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-15  9:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
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