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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Beginner's Ide
Date: 10 May 2001 12:01:27 -0400
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charleshixson@earthling.net (Charles Hixson) writes:

> raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote in
> <7p1hfto4sa6d4sek62ipntjsrvaqsvodtt@4ax.com>: 
> 
> >...The GNAT IDE should be avoided like the plague.
> >Aonix do a nice free ( for noncommercial use ) compiler + Ide
> >that should be fine for students.
> >
> 
> GNAT IDE?  I see nothing wrong with AdaGIDE, but if you don't 
> like it, you could try jGRASP.  They don't do GUI's for you (was 
> that what you meant) but they're pretty good.  And jGRASP is 
> portable.

Just to be clear, there is no product named "the GNAT IDE". GNAT is
just a command line compiler; it can be used with any IDE that
supports command line compilers. 

AdaGIDE is a student-oriented, minimal, GUI interface to the GNAT
compiler. It is produced by the US Air Force Academy. It is available
on the GNAT ftp site as a curtesy. Previous versions of GNAT bundeled
AdaGIDE with the GNAT binary distribution, but this is no longer done.

ACT (the GNAT support company) also supports an extension to GNU Emacs
called Glide. It includes an Ada mode, among other things. 

I'm not clear what "other things", because I have not seen an adequate
description, and I like my current Emacs setup and don't want to risk
breaking it by installing Glide :(.

-- 
-- Stephe