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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: The Ada experience.
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
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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