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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:19:22 +0100
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> The majority of (paying) Ada users don't use GUIs anyway (something
> we found out with Claw) - the people on comp.lang.ada are not that
> typical of the Ada user base as a whole (or at least of the ones
> that keep Ada companies in business).

Our project is an embedded system without any UI at all, let alone a
GUI. It's kept quite a few developers in work for several years (more
than it should have done, but that's another matter, and definitely
not Ada's fault!)

We've used an embedded web server where appropriate for testing, but
it's definitely not deliverable (shame, really).

As to the development environment, people do tend to use GPS now
rather than Emacs (even I, an Emacs diehard, use it for debugging). We
have one engineer who uses vi and one (no longer on the project) who
used Notepad. Bizarre.