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Subject: Pretty Printer for Ada?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 20:54:08 GMT
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Does anyone have any experience with an Ada pretty printer or code
profiler that they liked.

We are using Meridian on the pcs and
Alsys on the Suns and both pretty printers really hack up the code.
They dont provide many knobs to control the way they decide to do things.
Especially with comments that are on the right side of the code and
vertical tiling of variable lists.  Apparently the pretty printers like
to mix the code and comments together so you get a mess.  It especially
likes horizontal code, like 255 characters on a line before a newline.
My printer and editor only shows the 1st 80 characters and then wraps.
Our contract requires us to use the pretty printer.

These pretty printers actually make the code less readable and promote
not commenting the code or adding any extra use of text or spacing
to make the source more readable.