Re: Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors.

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

No need to get insulting. Just consider this point: MSVC++ has considerably
more features and integration than just about anything I've seen that comes
out of a box for Ada. While you can get many of the same capabilities out of
a polyglot of tools that you have to pull together from a variety of
sources, there isn't something of similar capability for Ada. You may not
like the way MSVC++ does a variety of things and you may have preferences
for other toolsets (of which I'm always happy to hear) but I don't think
that changes the fact that MSVC++ provides navigation, GUI building, class
libraries, debugging, building, etc., all together in one convenient package
and I don't see a similar shrink-wrap kit available for Ada. If Ada got *at
least* as far as MSVC++ it would have achieved something pretty cool.

Metrowerks and Code Warrior might make interesting models for deriving a set
of requirements for an Ada IDE. I'd have to look at them in more detail to
see what they do that would be A Good Thing. The idea should be to identify
a set of capabilities & features that folks tend to find useful in other
IDEs and adapt that to an Ada environment. It never hurts to add new
capabilities and features along the way so that an Ada IDE would have *more*
to offer than the other available tools.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Maynard Handley" <name99@mac.com> wrote in message
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>
> (1) Anyone who thinks Dev Studio is a nice IDE clearly doesn't have very
> high standards. Dev Studio is a piece of junk. To give some obvious
> examples: