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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada IDEs (was Re: Re-Marketing Ada)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:49:35 -0600
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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > OF course, before the GPS (Gnat programming system) thre also was
nothing
> > close to an integrated IDE for Ada either.
>
> Hmph. Emacs is the best IDE around, as well as being the oldest, and
> it supports Ada very well, and has for years.

And, besides that, Aonix and Rational have had extensive IDEs available for
many years. Even Janus/Ada has IDEs for years.

The only way to make the original statement true is to replace Ada by GNAT
(something a lot of people seem to do anyway), and then forget about EMACS,
AdaGide, etc.

                Randy.