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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,6928b62e05f4baa0,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.89.196 with SMTP id bq4mr1857397pab.26.1344324959561; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: g9ni3207534pbo.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ctu-peer!ctu-gate!news.nctu.edu.tw!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l5g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Dufr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Which compiler / IDE do you recommend for a beginner? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.230.82.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343734074 14935 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2012 11:27:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l5g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.230.82.82; posting-account=GfZx5woAAADTB-o-XOdlp4UQ5ID5xKzF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-31T04:26:19-07:00 List-Id: Which compiler / IDE do you recommend for a beginner? As I understand it, the top priority for the beginner would be choosing an environment conducive to learning. This requires of course requires reduced complexity, and possibly well explained error messages. Which Ada compiler / environment is the best in this regard? Thanks Dufr