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From: Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr (Laurent Guerby)
Subject: Re: [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style
Date: 1996/04/30
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"David Sanderson, IV" writes
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: All that changed when we started using Rational's Apex.  While
: the product is a bit pricey, from a software engineer's point-
: of-view it is worth every penny.
[long list of features deleted]
: Sound like a Rational commercial... sure, but this is one satisfied
: Rational customer.

   A bit of FSF  commercial ;-), here  are the feature  you mentioned,
and how they are provided with emacs/gnat/gdb :

- Pretty printer integrated (emacs font(lazy)-lock plus ps-print).

- Find definition of everything (procedure, types)  since the Ada mode
parses gnatf outpout).

- RCS or CVS support (with systematic window for log entry).

- Customization (sometimes seen as a  nightmare for emacs user but not
so difficult if you read the manuals ;-).

- Integrated multi language debugger gud/gdb (with a bit of experience
it works for tasking and distributed programming).

- Multi sources syntactic and semantic checks with window and point on
error ala Turbo Pascal (with the GNAT messages in bonus).

- Cross reference  tool, gnatf  (ASIS  soon, may be  integrated  under
emacs).

-  ACT coding standard  (syntactic) switch plus  some tools to do some
minor reformatings.

- Reformater on demand (non too much intrusive).

   Of course it's worth every  penny ;-).  There  are also some  other
interesting  features both   for APEX  and   emacs (build  facilities,
automatic generation of bodies, cross compilers, ...).

   My $0.00 ...

[See my web home page if you want an example of configuration]

-- 
--  Laurent Guerby, student at Telecom Bretagne (France), Team Ada.
--  "Use the Source, Luke. The Source will be with you, always (GPL)."
--  http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~guerby/ (GATO Project).
--  Try GNAT, the GNU Ada 95 compiler (ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat).