Re: IDE's that support ADA

[rriehle@itu.edu]

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:02:51 PM UTC-7, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 14-10-26 20:34 , nathandsash@gmail.com wrote:
> > I know that Vi/Vim and Emacs and other programming
> > environments support ADA programming, but how about any
> > modern-day IDE's like Visual Studio for instance?
> 
> AdaCore, the company providing the professional and GPL versions of the
> GNAT Ada compiler, also provide an IDE called GPS -- comparable to other
> "modern" IDEs, IMO, and with several Ada- and GNAT-specific features --
> and a plug-in for Eclipse, which I haven't used.
> 
> -- 
> Niklas Holsti
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For writing Ada code in my classroom, I still use AdaGide.   It is quick and easy, I can enlarge the font on-the-fly with ease, and there is no fooling around with creating projects, etc.  I just write the code, compile it, and execute with no overhead activity.   

BTW, for those who do not know, I retired from my professor-ship at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) a couple of years ago, my second attempt at retirement (the first being retirement from AdaWorks).  Right after retiring from NPS (where Ada has become an anathema), I was asked to teach software engineering classes part-time at a small private school in San Jose, Ca.  I am also teaching a class called Programming Paradigms, and I make it a point to include Ada as one of the programming languages in that course.  

The students are usually amazed to see such things as Design by Contract in a language, along with some of the other unique features of the language.  We only have six hours out of the total of 45 hours of classroom discussion for Ada, but at least they get a taste of it.  

In addition, Ed Colbert is now charged with updating Ada Distilled.  I hope he will be able to complete the updates.  I am making some contributions to the new edition, and hope to include a software engineering chapter for it.

Richard Riehle, PhD, International Technological University, San Jose, CA.