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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,91ec3b1c30b751e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 07:05:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: cross-platform source code editor Date: 04 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1017932690 7895 128.183.220.71 (4 Apr 2002 15:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2002 15:04:50 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22095 Date: 2002-04-04T15:04:50+00:00 List-Id: M�rio Amado Alves writes: > "I must point out that there is _no_ way to "add packages" to AdaGIDE, > so you seem to be somewhat inconsistent here." (Stephe) > > Not really. I don't want to add packages. I don�t like to do it. So I > prefer a tool that does not require me to do it. Ok, but you listed "easy to add packages" as a criterium for an IDE. > "In the same vein, it is very difficult for me to write a new > package for MSVS, whereas I can easily (and have) write new packages > for Emacs. Open Source rules!" > > AdaGIDE is open source, and it is written in Ada. Can you really beat > that for flexibility? ;-) Good point. However, an interpreted environment is better for customizing an editor, because it is such an intensly user-interactive situation. Editors are one application where Ada would _not_ be my first choice language, at least for the guru-level scripting/customizing. Maybe there will be an interpreted Ada look-alike language for scripting AdaGIDE sometime? DEC had TPU, which was at least Pascal-like and interpreted. Is TPU still around? -- -- Stephe