Re: Code completion in ada IDE's

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Mariusz <mchmiel21@tlen.pl> writes:

> You for the answers on the matter of Ada IDE, but the thing about this
> language is that is horrible for beginners speccially when they do not
> have a manual in their possesion,

Considering that you can download the reference manual for free (if it
doesn't come with your compiler), not having a copy of the reference
manual is a rather bad excuse.

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

Ada is a programming language, not an editor!

I will not deny that it may be possible to make an editor for editing
Ada source code, which is more efficient than Emacs with ada-mode, but
considering how small a part of my time actually is spent writing Ada
source code (most of the time is spent analysing the problems and
designing algorithms and data structures for solving them), I'm not
sure it would be worth the time learning to use it.

A working code completion system basically requires that the code is
compiled, so I wouldn't appreciate the task of having to implement a
real-time code completion system for Ada.

Jacob
-- 
�Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the
 programming language.�                    -- Preben Randhol