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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <6530a40c.0408240309.36f53e75@posting.google.com> <8429999a.0408241225.144c0066@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com> <87brgxkbol.fsf@insalien.org> <19b0e504.0408280957.5e266d7@posting.google.com> <877jrjhzx4.fsf@insalien.org> <19b0e504.0408300906.15164bf3@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408310911.1e885c26@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <19b0e504.0408310911.1e885c26@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:12:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1093975944 63.184.8.236 (Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:12:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:12:24 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3223 Date: 2004-08-31T18:12:24+00:00 List-Id: Dan McLeran wrote: > I guess I was expecting more from the IDE for the money. If ACT is > going to sell support for these tools, they should make them worth > having. An IDE without code completion help? Gimme a break. A GUI > builder that doesn't let you write your event handler code while > you're building your GUI? Again, gimme a break. It would be nice to hear from supported users of GPS about these issues. The supported version is generally ahead of the public version. You could contact ACT sales and say an IDE must have these features if you're going to pay for support, and see if they can meet your requirements. -- Jeff Carter "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." Blazing Saddles 88