From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: The Ada experience.
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-09-04T10:40:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnanbood.3bd.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9a25nugj860iofuv46h2l2bbvlgf4ophc0@4ax.com
On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 07:41:03 +1000, henderson was no auteur wrote:
>>I still think that the greatest obstacle is the Ada out of box experience.
>
> I have to agree.
> I have never used the pro version of GNAT. ( no big bucks here)
> However, the free version with the various free IDEs is abyssmal.
>
> It feels like something out of the sixties.
<rant>
Nowadays the wrapping is the most important I guess. If the
content is bad or buggy or a health risk doesn't matter as long as it
has a nice box flashy cover and cool stickers on it.
</rant>
But speaking of Gnat and out of the box (to come) read this:
http://www.gnat.com/texts/news/news_gps.htm
and
http://www.gnat.com/texts/products/GPS_tour.pdf
for a tour with screenshots
Hopefully there will be a public version too.
Preben Randhol
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2002-09-01 21:41 The Ada experience henderson was no auteur
2002-09-02 22:19 ` jim hopper
2002-09-04 10:40 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-09-07 6:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-07 13:55 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-09 11:41 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-09-09 13:51 ` SteveD
2002-09-09 17:36 ` tmoran
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