Re: Decent ADA compiler on a Mac

[evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)]

In article <sarge-2003952344040001@192.229.32.35>, sarge@Rational.Com
(Matthew C. Sargent) wrote:

> I will have to speak up on that one. Command line interfaces are not
> better for compiling and linking (and debugging). Look at all the IDEs out
> there for C/C++/Pascal and _Ada_ too! They really are a pleasure to use
> and make managing the closure of your program much easier.

For simple applications, with perhaps a half dozen or so modules with a
few thousand lines of code, maybe that's true.  But for bigger programs,
I want a MAKE facility and scripts.

For example, Think C on the Mac has a fairly smooth build process, but
it works only if all steps in the build are C compiles.  If the build
includes tools that create source code (such as a parser generator),
Think C can't help.  I want make for such builds.

Art Evans

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