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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada Compilers
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0205160706.52667440@posting.google.com>...
> If you are comfortable (or want to learn
> to become comfortable) with Emacs, then this is probably 
> the free compiler for you. Apparently a VC++ style IDE is 
> on the way too.

I think that Ted is giving dubious advice here. I would not
advise a beginner to plunge into EMACS. Instead the obvious
IDE to use is AdaGIDE which is specifically intended for
use by beginners learning Ada (but is sufficiently powerful
to support large projects).