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- From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 08:09:58 GMT
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- Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
- >"Does ADA provide its own OS, its own editor and
- >its own hardware so that you never need to use anything else?"
- >
- >
- >What ever did happen to the APSE (Ada programmers support environment)
- >which was going to be the ultimate IDE (but never quite got anywhere,
- >as far as I can tell)?
-
- Every Ada compiler I've ever used for production purposes - Alsys, Thomson, Verdix,
- Telesoft, HP, Meridien, and a few I forget - had such things as an editor, a linker,
- and especially a library manager.
-
- ie APSE is standard. Rather than 'ultimate', I'd call it 'minimal' - for example, it
- lacks a good versioning CMS - you can get away with as minimal a functionality as,
- say, Turbo-C's.
-
- I have a suggestion: try actually using GNAT (free), or the $99 Thomson compiler.
- The latter also has all sorts of GUI builders, bindings to Windows etc.
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