Re: Evaluation of Ada-compilers and IDE:s

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Per Sandberg" <per.sandberg@bredband.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.186.1102795250.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> Thanks for your input,
> But to make a long story short:
>
> I am currently running GNAT and ObjectAda and got a personal view on
> which one is the best to use in production, and was wondering if there
> was anyone havinge other experiences.
> I have been running the old Rational R1000 Ada machines (and that is
> still the best Ada(83) environment in the world, the only problem is
> that CPU-power and memory sucks) and from that iI have taken the
> transision from to APEX under AIX (that environment was scraped in the
> mid 90:s).
> Currently I am running ObejctAda and GNAT and what I want to know is if
> ther is any comparison of recent date between  Aonix ObjectAda and GNAT.
> I think APEX is out of the question since Rational has sent out an end
> of life warning on APEX (they maybe changed their mind but in my eys
> their messege was clear and their website does not push for Ada).

I think the people at IBM (formerly Rational) that have been spearheading
the Ada 2005 work would be surprised to hear that.

As far as the website goes, IBM has so many software development products,
it's amazing that you can find anything on it. It's unrealistic to expect
them to highlight anything that doesn't fit in with the latest "hot" area
(seems to be web services these days). I don't think any company that has a
significant non-Ada business emphasizes Ada on their website -- which is
just common sense (appeal to 90% of the programmers, or to 10%??).

                     Randy.