Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Juha Valimaki wrote:
> hi,
> 
 > [snip]
 >
> The question is: Would you or your company use Ada more if there was Visual
> C++/Metroworks/.. like tools available at reasonable cost? By "Visual
> C++/Metroworks/.. like" I mean products that are easy to buy from any web
> shop, are commercially developed and can be "used together" to get wide
> platform support (Mac/Linux/Win/Unix).

I personally would use it more if there was an open source tool that 
incorporated UML, *use cases in and of themselves*  (they're not just 
diagrams, so it'd be nice to attach a use case to a use case entity in a 
UML use case diagram.  Double click on the entity and it opens the 
associated use case, sorted!  Just a convienance really), project 
management, code generation in a language independant way (that is the 
tool is not tightly coupled to one or even a couple of languages, in 
short it is capable of handling any language you chose to tell it 
exists!) and had a degree of platform and tool independance.  This is 
really a design issue, but that's what keeps me from coding nowadays, 
i.e. design.



> P.S. simple YES/NO replies would make this poll easier to follow :-)

Obviously missed that bit.  Yes and no.  Depends what else it had to offer.


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