Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?

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

I looked over the tour of GPS and was suitably whelmed. This is the sort of
thing that Ada needs to have available. (Which obviously leads to the
question of if/when it will be available to the general public - or, more
precisely, mere mortals who can't afford ACT support contracts. :-) It looks
incredibly spiffy and really fills a major gap that has existed between Ada
and other languages.

But I'd have to agree that (while name recognition is nice) colliding names
with a popular navigation system (especially given the context in which Ada
has traditionally been a big deal) is likely to lead to confusion. It is
most likely to cause trouble with web searches. ("Hey I heard these guys
talking about something called 'GPS' on this newsgroup and they seemed to be
thrilled about it. Gee... I wonder if I can find out more about it from
Google???") Or in word-of-mouth communication (Think of the overheard
conversation where someone goes "Oh yeah. I know all about that thing 'GPS'
they're talking about. I don't need to investigate further." I once had a
headhunter presume that "Adabas" had something to do with "Ada" on my resume
and clearly she didn't know what she was talking about, but kept sending
inquiries anyway.)

That's my $0.02 worth of input on it, but as you observe, that's not our
call. But if a dozen people tell you that you look sick, maybe you need to
lie down and rest a while no matter how good you feel? :-)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3CDB2F01.78B66E87@adaworks.com...
>
> Maybe it's not too late to change the name to GPE, for
> Gnat Programming Environment.   I rather like that better,
> but it's obviously not my call.
>