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From: jcreem@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com (Jeff Creem)
Subject: Re: Was Operating Systems (Now Windows GUI Debugger)
Date: 1997/07/24
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References: <33D541EF.17B6@digiscape.com> <5r43gi$61t@drn.zippo.com>
Organization: Jeff Creem
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-07-24T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5r43gi$61t@drn.zippo.com>, Nasser wrote:

>In article <33D541EF.17B6@digiscape.com>, "Robert says...
>>
>>Looking for some objective opinions.  I am a new programmer and am going
>>to be doing it for a living and will be buying a new computer soon.  I
>>am trying to find out what will be the best and most practical operating
>>system to run on a home computer that will be used for programming a
>>lot.  I have heard very good things about Windows NT, but dont know much
>>about it.  Are there any good books that could help me with this?  Can
>>somebody help me with what would be best for these purposes?  Thanks for
>>the help.
>
>not sure what this has to do with Ada? if you mean you want to use Ada,
>and trying to find which is the most Ada-friendly OS, then I would guess
>Unix would be more, I am just saying that becuase I can use a GUI based
>debugger on Linux (xxgdb) to step and debug in GNAT ada code, while on
>windows I am not sure if even there is a GUI debugger for Ada, I know you
>can use gdb, but that is not GUI based.
>

Actually i would expect the next version of GNAT for NT to have
a GUI debugger since there is now one with the latest version of
gnu-win32 from cygnus. In fact, with a lot of fiddling I have gotten
the new version of the debugger to work with this older version of gnat
(based on the older cgynus release).. (Without the Ada specific gdb stuff but
that is not really needed)

Jeff Creem