Hi !
I use ADAgide on W2Kpro (learning).
Get my friend Stephane's free distro 'Aide' full of all necessary free tools and libraries at :
http://eig.unige.ch/lii/Aide.htm

And good luck and learning with this great language !

Fran�ois BERGERET / France
f6hqz@wanadoo.fr

"Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no> a �crit dans le message news: mVcM8.420$sq6.6278@news2.ulv.nextra.no...
> Having just discovered Ada as an interesting alternative to
> other imperitive programming languages with which I am
> competent, I downloaded and installed GNAT 3.14p on my
> Windows 2000 system only to find that there is no graphical
> IDE supplied (GNU Visual Debugger excluded).
>
> (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?)
>
> Not quite ready to dispair yet, I downloaded a separate
> program called AdaGIDE, which supposedly is compatible with
> GNAT and Win95/NT, but, as it turned out, not with Win2K
> (incompatible virtual device driver). :-(
>
> Are there alternative GIDEs available? Obviously in the
> learning phrase I would want to minimize my outlay, at
> least until such time as I'm comfortable programming in Ada
> and quite sure it is what the "hype" makes it out to be.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel
>
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