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From: "Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no>
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Subject: Re: Is there a Graphical IDE to GNAT 3.14p (Win2K platform)?
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"Michael Bode" <m.g.bode@web.de> wrote in message
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> "Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no> writes:
>
> > (Aside: why is it that most providers of programming tools
> > try to force command-line interfaces on Windows users? What
> > could be more unnatural than a command-line interface on
> > Windows or, for that matter, Macintosh?)
>
> In addition to the half dozen or so suggestions for IDEs I have to
say
> that for Ada and in particular for Gnat a command line interface is
> not as bad as for other languages. You don't have to learn the
command
> line syntax of several compile & link steps or the "programming
> language" of a complex make utility. Simply typing 'gnatmake hello'
to
> build the executable should not be too difficult for a programmer.
And
> it works the same way for much larger projects too.
>
> So even if there were no IDEs for Ada - which is not true - building
an
> Ada program on the command line is much simpler than building e.g. a
> C{++} program.
>
> BTW: I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Visual C++ is a command line
compiler
> too. Visual Studion calls it in the same way that Emacs calls Gnat.
I
> suspect that Visual Studio even uses make files and nmake to build
> larger projects.

I'd be surprised if it isn't, Michael. My point is that I
want to avoid having to write parameters on the command
line or in batch/command files. An IDE provides an
alternative way for the user to provide the necessary
parameters, and then takes care of writing them to the
command line. I guess I'm used to being pampered. ;-)

Daniel