From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,93c210d172820d32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: best ada integrated development environment Date: 22 Sep 2004 19:23:19 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095895409 25882 212.85.156.195 (22 Sep 2004 23:23:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:23:29 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3973 Date: 2004-09-22T19:23:19-04:00 Phil writes: > Hi, i have been out of the ada stuff for a while and are just about to > embark on a project to simulate a blackjack card game using ada. Welcome back! > I spent a few days researching languages > c/c++/pascal/python/java.....pro's and con's.....and chose ADA (yes > i want the static type checking) You've obviously come to the right newsgroup :). > Is there a clearly best free integrated development environment? Yes, of course. Emacs is the best. > Is there a big difference between free and propriority IDE for the > small'ish project of mine? All the proprietary IDE's I've used suffer greatly on comparison to Emacs. Learning to use Emacs well takes time. But once you've learned it, you never need learn another IDE; Emacs does all languages just as well as Ada. -- -- Stephe