From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0bb49d890f2dc77 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-12 13:10:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Thanks for the suggestions! Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:09:16 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:09:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8629 Date: 2001-06-12T20:09:16+00:00 List-Id: In article , Rod Weston says... > >in Ada. I mention these to encourage suggestions on a suitable >professional learning environment. I also downloaded EMACS, but >haven't been able to get the Ada 'personality' installed and I'm >wondering if the AdaGIDE will be better for development than EMACS >anyway. I'm not really excited about EMACS at this point. **What >editors are being used and loved out there that have Ada >configurations?** I use Emacs. It actually *comes* with an Ada mode installed that integrates great with the Gnat compiler. There's a more up-to-date set of elisp files for Ada mode available online, but the standard Emacs will work just fine if you don't want the headache of installing new elisp files. Every project I have worked on in the last 6 years has used Emacs as its main source code editing tool, so it is probably worth learning to use in and of itself. AdaGUIDE was developed for university students. I suppose it may be fine for a beginner, but sooner or later a serious user is going to want more functionality than it can provide. As for books, I'd also highly suggest Norm Cohen's "Ada as a Second Language" for an experienced software developer. My boss has over 13 different Ada books, and that one is the favorite here. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com