Re: [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style

[dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)]

In article <4m5t0p$gig@esdmaster.dsd.northrop.com>,
Frank Falk <falk@hendrix.dsd.northrop.com> wrote:
>I used Rational APEX on my last project.  It not only pretty printed
>code for me, but corrected my errors.
>
>I use to love the way it would decide that if I nested if-then statements
>and forgot an "end if" it was the last one I forgot.  Of course after redoing my
>indentations, my code no longer do what I wrote, but it looked nice. :)  Finding 
>where to place those two words after my indentations were "fixed" led to many
>happy and productive hours.
>
>The joy of putting something where it didn't belong and having APEX "fix" it also
>gave me many hours of joy. :)

Hmm, yes.

Emacs does this for you also.  It is also smart enough to "colorize"
your code (should you so choose) -- all built-in too.

>In closing, let me say that if I had the choice to use it again, I would.  It 
>might be very expensive but on a large project it will pay for itself.

pragma Tongue(In_Cheek);
That's an interesting philosophy -- we've found that, for large
projects, people have no problem spending large sums of money when a
free product will work as well (or close enough) :-)
pragma Tongue(Normal);

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