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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio
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"Markus E L" <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>
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...
> > But what is practical, is to make use of the tools that Microsoft has
made
> > available to customize their development environment.
>
> ? And you don't think the creeping featuritis and inevitable but fast
> change of the MS tools wouldn't hit them then? I think they would,
> actually I cannot imagine any worse environment for maintaining any
> corpus of code than these "tools Microsoft has made" wheras plain old
> make and a compiler ...

This was my point last week. We're pretty much done chasing Microsoft,
because we don't have the resources to keep up with the constant changes. I
don't think many companies do.

                              Randy.