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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 09:05:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!194.42.224.136!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> <3B4C65F5.B304D12A@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:01:40 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.120.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 994867221 213.104.120.3 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:00:21 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:00:21 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9799 Date: 2001-07-11T17:01:40+01:00 List-Id: > > Could you define State Of The Art IDE for me please? > > > > A while back I had the idea for an IDE that could handle different compilers, > > and didn't need things on the PATH. Anyway, I didn't get very far, but recently > > I've been looking at the idea again, possibly using GWindows, and I'm looking > > for ideas. > > > > I was thinking of an IDE for Windows with some of the following > > > > - Syntax Highlighting > > - Project Management facilities > > - Code Completion (good for long package structures like x.y.a.b.c ?) > > - Possibility an Object browser > > - Ada Aware > > - Non Specific Compiler support > > - and others > > > > What other features would you like to see? What features would you not like to > > see? > > What's funny is that Emacs with the Ada-mode (and the other modes with > which it is bundled) already provides most of these features, just...in > the "Emacs idiom". > I found that hard to adjust to, and the mappings difficult to learn. That's why I don't use Emacs except in rare cases. I guess it's just a matter of personal preference. Chris Campbell