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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: VISUAL ADA COMPILER ???????
Date: 1997/12/15
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Steve <Strange@loop.com> writes:

> Im a big ada fan, and am looking for any info on any type of visual
> ada compiler ( ie like visual basic ) anyone ever heard/ seen such a
> thing , if so where ?

Aonix's ObjectAda.  On NT/W95 has look and feel (for good and ill)
just like the "IDE" you get with MSVC++.

http://www.thomsoft.com/Products/Ada/ada.html

Also there is GRASP,

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/grasp.html

Rational Apex, and several others that I can't recall at the moment


> --- the only thing ada lags is runtime
> esthetics;

Huh?  IDE stuff has nothing to do with runtime.  The Ada runtime is
IMO is far and away better than most ("esthetically" and otherwise).

/Jon

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