From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: Current Ada strengths - was Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <63anqr$ssq$1@helios.crest.nt.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286054066 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <345881C4.640998A4@horvath.com> <1997Oct30.094442.1@eisner> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1997Oct30.094442.1@eisner>, Larry Kilgallen wrote: >In article <345881C4.640998A4@horvath.com>, Bob Horvath writes: > >> It seems to me that if you know language, you don't need an IDE. And if you >> need an IDE, then you don't know the language. > >In my experience IDEs are most helpful not with the language but with >the environment. Just because I know Ada, that does not mean I know >everything about calling Win32S, or MacApp, or Motif. If my goal is to That's what reference manuals are for, no? >have my Ada program run on multiple platforms, IDEs could be a blessing >in making my otherwise correct software run in these environments. How would an IDE in one environment help your program work on another platform? It seems like an IDE would just induce you to make your program specific to one platform, particularly if it has ``easy'' procedures for adding extensions to your program or for generating UI code for you, and such. -- "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton