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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Code completion in ada IDE's
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:23:39 +0100
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mchm <mchmiel21@tlen.pl> writes:

>                                     If Ada is designed for large
> scale projects such abilities should be built in ... i suppose.

Of course those are IDE features and not language features. Not the
less desirable if that's what you're used to.

I don't have accurate stats but I would think the proportion of time
on a large project spent actually writing new code is of order 5% ...
so completion is not as valuable a feature as accurate code
navigation.