Announce: Understand for Ada 1.2.4

Announce: Understand for Ada 1.2.4

[Kenneth C. Nelson]

Hi Comp.Lang.Ada:

 Understand for Ada Version 1.2.4, an Ada 83/95 reverse
 engineering and cross-refererencing tool, is now
 available here:

    http://www.scitools.com/download/understand_ada/
 
 Customers may upgrade there. Those evaluating the
 tool may download a full capability but time limited
 version.

 Windows 95/98/NT 4, Solaris, SunOS, Dec Alpha, RS6000 AIX,
 SGI Irix 6.x, Linux, and HP-UX versions are available.

 An Acrobat readable data sheet describing the tool
 in detail can be viewed here:

    http://www.scitools.com/und_ada_ds.pdf

 New this release:

   - LINUX port (finally!)
   - Copy and paste from Source Browser 
   - Configure Source Browser font size, color and other preferences
   - Faster processing when extensively using generics and large arrays
   - Combining of cross reference for entities that are the same but
     that are declared in multiple locations.
   - and a lot of bug fixes and other minor improvements

Regards,

Ken Nelson

http://www.scitools.com/

Re: Announce: Understand for Ada 1.2.4

[Dale Stanbrough]

" Hi Comp.Lang.Ada:
  
   Understand for Ada Version 1.2.4, an Ada 83/95 reverse
   engineering and cross-refererencing tool, is now
   available here:"

I would just like to comment that it would be great if all vendors
considered the case of universities/colleges when releasing software.

I know from personal experience that there is little money in the
education sector, and generally even less for languages that are not
flavour of the day. When a lecturer is trying to gather good tools
for a subject, it is very hard to recommend Ada compared to Java (for
example), when all the Java tools are generally free.

Just remember that the education market is one (very important) way
to grow the Ada mindshare.

(Note i'm not commenting on SciTools specifically, i'm not sure
what their policy is).

Dale