Re: Experiences with GPS-IDE

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> does anyone has tried out GPS, the
> IDE from ACT?

Yes.

> I'm a emacs-ada-mode-coder and i like it.

Me too :).

> But if i could enforce my coding per- formance - why not?

Did you mean "improve"? If so, the answer is "no, it will not improve
your coding performance".

Emacs is still way more powerful than GPS. GPS requires using the
mouse (always slower than keyboard after learning), and it requires
dedicating screen real estate to stuff other than code (a cardinal sin
:).

GPS does one thing better; generate graphical representations of
withing trees, calling trees, and other "dependencies". One of these
days, Emacs will do that too :).

Oh, it also has a better browser for C++ code, but that's a separate
issue :).

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