Re: Experiences with GPS-IDE

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

Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > 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 :).
> 
> If you were to compare it to other IDE's how does it measure up?

Hmm. I've used Visual Basic (a really long time ago :), and Borland
5.0 (also a while ago).

GPS is about as good as those; it provides a point-and-click
environment, not very customizable, with "project navigation", source
code colorization, integration with the compiler and debugger.

VB and Borland also came with libraries for Windows stuff; GPS
supports GtkAda as well as any other Ada library.

Since I use Emacs overwhelmingly, and am extremely biased against
using a mouse, these may not be very valid comparisons.

I did use ObjectAda for a short while; GPS seems better than that.

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-- Stephe