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,d2cca2df93731625 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Werner Pachler" Subject: Re: Emacs Ada code navigation tools Date: 1998/09/10 Message-ID: <6t8pri$d4t$1@fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 389765550 References: <35F6F05E.9A8F2DD0@elca-matrix.ch> <6t8n57$st7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@Austria.EU.net X-Trace: fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net 905439922 13469 193.154.243.18 (10 Sep 1998 15:05:22 GMT) Organization: EUnet Austria NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 1998 15:05:22 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-10T15:05:22+00:00 List-Id: T.E.D., i have been using DEC/VAX with VMS, DEC Ada, LSE and VAX/VMS debugger a couple of years and i did also use Ada Compilers, Editors Debuggers on many other platforms (MS-DOS, Windows-95, Windows-NT, DEC Ultrix and SGI-IRIX). Especially after using the other Compilers, debuggers, etc. i thanked god that he gave the developers of DEC the power to develop these tools (including VMS). The big trouble came to me when i tried to port my code (Ada Code!!!!!) to the plattforms described above. (Compiler bugs, editors like MS-DOS edit, debuggers like dbx, ...). > >As I remember it, that required using a third tool (in addition to LSE and >DecAda). As it has been about 8 years, I don't remember its three-letter >acronym anymore. > I can't image what three-letter tool you mean. >What I do remember is that it was so slow it was next to useless. It would >take several minutes to find a declaration. In that amount of time you could >easily find it yourself with "search". Plus it took its information from the >symbol table, so if you significantly changed your source since the last >compile it wouldn't work right anymore. I was the only developer out of 50+ >developers on the project who used it more than a day, and I gave up on it >after a week. Even DTM was more useful! > >Not that I wouldn't like to see a *good* implementation of that >functionality... The proplem you had was that your development environment had to less power to be usefull. Buy a faster VAX or Alpha... PS: A friend of mine, after changing from VAX/VMS to a unix plattform said: "Every alpha release of DIGITAL software is better than the official release of software on my plattform!". W.Pachler@mobilkom.at