Re: Fun with WebAda/GNAT

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Richard said

"For what it's worth, when students have a problem, it is often useful
to be able to see from their transcript whether the problem was in one
of their own files or whether it was something from the library path.
"

Having taught Ada using GNAT more than once, I can't see this as a problem.
We have our students work in well defined environments with preset paths,
where we know immediately from the units involved where they are.

Also, I don't work at all from "transcripts", students send me source
code. I run it in the identical environment that they do, so I know
exactly what is happening -- I think this works out much better in
practice.