Re: Ada IDEs (was Re: Re-Marketing Ada)

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:
>
> Hmph. Emacs is the best IDE around, as well as being the oldest, and
> it supports Ada very well, and has for years.
>
> I guess you mean "easy to learn" "point and click" IDE, as opposed to
> "powerful and productive" IDE. Even there, recent Emacsen (plural of
> Emacs :) are pretty good at providing guidance to newbies (not as good
> as GPS, I'll grant you).
>
*** Yeah, again the ever popular VC++'s IDE, VB's IDE, Delphi's IDE and the
likes.  When I say integrated I don't just mean an editor that can execute a
compiler/linker.  Bur you are right to say that they do impose a paradigm.
And Since Ada is much more than a simple paradigm, beyond it dare I say.  I
guess wizards and code generators, for Ada, would need a Paradigm Type
selection box ;-).

>
> Only for systems that match what the wizard does. One of the reasons I
> like Emacs and Ada is that they do _not_ impose any programming
> paradigms; they let you use which ever one is best for the problem at
> hand.
>
> -- 
> -- Stephe

You're getting me convinced Steph :-)...Although I've installed LInux a few
times I haven't really had the change to get accustomed to Emacs and any Ada
extensions to it.  Can I get that for windows and does it/would it work the
same and as well under windows?

If so, I need a URL to Emacs (for windows) and to any tools that might prove
helpful for my Ada coding :-).  I'm plannign a dual boot Windows / Linux,
but I'm not there yet...so I only have windows for now (I know I'm a
sadomajochist ;-).  Windows 98 no less :-O.

I'd like to see first hand how Emacs and Ada work together.

-- 
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
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