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Subject: Re: Irony?
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On 01/08/2010 19:21, in article 6lutt5yuljus$.yp56imm36exb$.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:04:47 +0100, (see below) wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone else find it ironic that requests for assistance with
>> "user-friendly" IDEs seem to rival requests for help with Ada itself?
> 
> No, because if there indeed are questions to the GPS/gpr design, compared
> to the Visual Studio or Workbench GPS is as Ada to C.
> 
> Maybe the irony is in how many man-years were burnt out for the Visual
> Studio compared to the GPS?

There seem to be as many about AdaGIDE.

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