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- From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Where are the APSEs? (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 22:24:42 GMT
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- In-reply-to: Dale Stanbrough's message of 15 Mar 1996 02:45:04 GMT
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- In article <4ialjg$oie@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> writes:
-
- > 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)?
-
- What happened to the monolithic integrated APSE is easy to explain.
- Go visit an old clothing factory. Lots of workstations all the
- same. Now visit an automobile plant. Every workstation on a line is
- different, and specialized for the job done at that station.
-
- Which model fits "sweat shop" software development? Which fits
- modern software engineering practices?
-
- Since only shops up the SEI ladder are willing to invest in APSEs,
- what they end up purchasing looks an awful lot like that auto
- production line. Where the auto line may have 200 robots from 30
- different manufacturers, I guarentee they won't be allocated one of
- each to each workstation... Different workstations are used to do
- different jobs and are equipped differently.
-
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- Robert I. Eachus
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