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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ca464c92c72e0e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Ada grammar Date: 2000/05/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621816465 References: <07a73f60.478cecce@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com> <8euivq$qso$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <004d942d.2e326cd2@usw-ex0104-026.remarq.com> <3919D285.E046DC9F@acenet.com.au> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 958005766 216.215.73.65 (Wed, 10 May 2000 19:42:46 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:42:46 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "dale" wrote in message news:dale-221B36.10311111052000@news.rmit.edu.au... > For source code analysis, surely it would be cheaper to buy a computer > that Gnat is available for, copy the source code across, and analyse > it there using an ASIS based tool. > > Computers are extremely cheap, source based analysis tools built without > the help of ASIS (i would contend) will never be. An extensive analysis tool, perhaps; a simple syntax checker (which I believe was the suggested application) might not be so expensive. I certainly written simple parsers for applications like pretty-printers without much effort, and without using ASIS. It also depends upon how many users there will be for the tool; whether there are issues that limit the networking (or other transfer of files) between different computer systems; and whether there are business issues related to purchasing hardware (for example, some companies limit the allowed configurations, so the computers might not be as cheap as you think!).