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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!WOOGLIN.SCC.COM!chuck From: chuck@WOOGLIN.SCC.COM (Charles Williams) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hypertext Ada Message-ID: <8903071156.AA13266@wooglin.scc.com> Date: 7 Mar 89 11:56:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: In reply to Bob Munck's thoughts on Hypertext Ada, it appears to me that what Mr. Munck wants is a *smart* Ada editor that allows you to find references of anything in the compilation unit with or without full dot notation (with a few other niceties that I'll address later.) He is also right when he says that the technology is available today, but it involves not only setting our sights above a vt-100, but also setting our sights above a PC and even a VAX. What Mr. Munck really wants is a Rational!!! Before everybody jumps on my back and starts screaming about the price of the system, I contend that if you all opened your eyes and looked at the entire life cycle costs for a large (on the order of 100K's of SLOC) project that used a VAX (or something similar) versus a Rational, you would see that the Rational has much lower life cycle costs and many more benifits. As far as pictures and other graphic notation goes, what is really needed is the ability to integrate graphic design tools such as IDE and Cadre with the Ada environment that one is using. This integration should ultimately give the user the ability to select a piece of an Ada compilation unit, execute a command (via mouse or key binding, etc.) and be able to view the graphic or icon that corresponds to the selected fragment. What is needed for this is also much more than a vt-100!! This requires some kind of bit-mapped workstation (i.e. Mac's, Sun's, etc.). As far as the Ada 9X effort goes, I don't think that media storage requests have anything to do with the Ada language. If you want to see something like Hypertext Ada, you should try and find a vendor who would develop it. The Ada 9X effort is to revise the Ada Language Reference Manual, and to my knowledge the Ada LRM says nothing about how Ada source code has to be stored. Chuck Williams Contel Federal Systems Disclaimer: I do not work for Rational, nor do I receive any compensation from them but, I am Chairman of the Rational Users' Group!!