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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:72d7:: with SMTP id o23mr60721196qtp.98.1564164297665; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:04:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6830:15cd:: with SMTP id j13mr53669814otr.110.1564164297353; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!b26no5122177qtq.0!news-out.google.com!a5ni1963qtd.0!nntp.google.com!b26no5122169qtq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:04:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2bede4ed-485b-4edb-9fcf-46f49ff82fb5@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.5.2.29; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.5.2.29 References: <5d9a8728-3c5b-4caf-b765-a455ba4d3523@googlegroups.com> <5fb45b9c-d7da-447c-999e-0e8bcce2eed5@googlegroups.com> <1dc13d50-7606-4530-b5cc-19e07b4d4938@googlegroups.com> <2bede4ed-485b-4edb-9fcf-46f49ff82fb5@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:04:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56958 Date: 2019-07-26T11:04:57-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 10:18:22 AM UTC-6, John Perry wrote: > I haven't used one of these with C or C++, but I have done some work in J= ava & Kotlin on IntelliJ (Android Studio, though AS seems really slow in co= mparison), and the difference between that IDE and my previous setup was an= eye-opener. I may embarrass myself here, but I was impressed that it repor= ts errors as you type, recommends more idiomatic code, even more efficient = constructs... >=20 > GPS, at least as shipped by AdaCore with the Community Edition, doesn't o= ffer nearly as much. This is true; and one item I'd like to address in a true Ada IDE. / The oth= er being better tooling than other systems -- I'm particularly attracted to= the idea of implementing the system outlined here ( http://citeseerx.ist.p= su.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=3D10.1.1.26.2533&rep=3Drep1&type=3Dpdf ) as it = would make for a much nicer Continuous Integration experience *AND* a much = nicer Version Control experience. [NOTE: With the hierarchical-DB system pr= esented, the history of the root-node *IS* the system in a compilable state= ; IOW, (a) no more "my commit broke the build" and (b) you have a record of= all compilable-states of the codebase.]