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New GNAT IDE Released

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-your-ada-needs dept.

McDoobie writes "Ada Core Technologies has released their new GPS Integrated Development Environment for download. It's intended to be a professional-grade development environment along the lines of Microsoft Visual C++ or Sun's Forte. You can grab it at http://libre.act-europe.fr/gps/. Check it out. You might like it."

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  1. Re:wow, finally! by slowdive1979 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    actually, it's not too poor of a programming language, at least as of Ada95 it wasn't. it's fairly tolerant of white space and is not case sensitive. it protects you from going outside arrays and similar programming glitches that are easy to miss and easily crash your program. it also handles multi-threaded programs very easily. finally, if there is something you want to do at a low level, or if you want to use C, it's fairly easy to turn off the protections or import a chunk of code.

    as far as editing goes, i always used emacs. with a decently configured lisp file, it will format the text according to what part of the program you are in or whether or a word is a variable or a command or what not. or there was the windows program adagide, which did all of this as well. i guess it's all in what you are used to, and what tool are at your disposal. :wq

  2. Re:Don't forget Dev-C++ by leifm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like Dev-C++ a lot. I am taking C++ in school this semester and have been using it because I have no access to VC++ at work, and it's great. Actually as far as I can tell if you aren't doing C++ dev that is Windows specific there would be no reason to choose VC++ over Dev-C++.

    --

    "Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
  3. Can it edit/understand VHDL? by PaulBu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... after all, syntactically VHDL is an Ada derivative.

    It would be an interesting thing for them to
    expand into an open-source VHDL design tool.

    Remember, now for a $100-$200 one can buy an FPGA
    evaluation board from, say, Xilinx, they would
    give you a (closed-source, I guess) compiler to
    compile from VHDL to an FPGA bin file, you load
    that into the board through a parport and here it
    is, fully custom electronic gadget!

    Paul B.