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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Is there a Graphical IDE to GNAT 3.14p (Win2K platform)?
Date: 08 Jun 2002 16:23:36 +0200
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"Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no> writes:

> (Aside: why is it that most providers of programming tools
> try to force command-line interfaces on Windows users? What
> could be more unnatural than a command-line interface on
> Windows or, for that matter, Macintosh?)

In addition to the half dozen or so suggestions for IDEs I have to say
that for Ada and in particular for Gnat a command line interface is
not as bad as for other languages. You don't have to learn the command
line syntax of several compile & link steps or the "programming
language" of a complex make utility. Simply typing 'gnatmake hello' to
build the executable should not be too difficult for a programmer. And
it works the same way for much larger projects too.

So even if there were no IDEs for Ada - which is not true - building an
Ada program on the command line is much simpler than building e.g. a
C{++} program.

BTW: I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Visual C++ is a command line compiler
too. Visual Studion calls it in the same way that Emacs calls Gnat. I
suspect that Visual Studio even uses make files and nmake to build
larger projects.

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