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

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

"Ketil Malde" <ketil+@ii.uib.no> wrote in message
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> Now, if only it *worked*.
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I readily and wholeheartedly conceed that MSVC++ - like many things made by
Micro$oft - is buggy and unreliable. (It is, after all, written in C/C++ :-)
Like many things Micro$oft makes - if it worked reliably, you'd have
little/no reason to buy the next release.

But that doesn't mean that the many features it has are not in some sense
"desirable" and hence something from which lessons can be learned. I'd love
to see something similar to the class view in some Ada IDE. I'd love to see
a source-level debugger that let you change code on the fly and do the many
things MSVC++ does (at least attempts to do) in an Ada IDE. While much of
the MFC is either an interface to MS operating systems or a patch-up of
weaknesses in the C++ language, that doesn't mean that a similar class
library wouldn't be a real plus for an Ada IDE.

I'm suggesting that most of the Ada IDE's I've seen don't come close to
MSVC++ in terms of its highly integrated functionality. (Certainly not at
the price tag.) There are certainly other IDE's that might provide
more/better features in a variety of areas. But that's what Ada should be
learning from and offering similar capabilities.

MDC
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