From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,55eec2ee238f12cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!nntp-server.pubsub.com!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news.hacking.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Code completion in ada IDE's Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:50:23 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.34 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1127861425 30211 80.241.165.34 (27 Sep 2005 22:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:50:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SmehebDfmo8b2PHCmrf+lZ73UAA= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5207 Date: 2005-09-28T00:50:23+02:00 List-Id: Mariusz 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