rick@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Rick Randall) (08/08/89)
As a follow-up to my earlier question about an Ada-smart editor I am now looking at Xinotech's Program Composer. Looks quite interesting and runs on multiple platforms, including PCs. It seems to handle Ada structure manipulations very well, but I didn't see any ability to cross-reference names among units (i.e., I'd like to place the cursor on a name and jump to its declaration). The Composer works for a number of languages (it uses abstract syntax trees on-the-fly) and can be tailored to enforce project standards to boot. Finally, it integrates with design languages like AdaDL and Byron. Apparently Xinotech recently got a big endorsement by having the Composer selected by one of the services (I forget which) for a large project or set of projects - to the tune of about 1/2 million bucks of sales. Anyone with usage experience? I have also gotten several notes about the applicability of the Ada-tailored version of gnuEMACS. A big advantage here is that you can get the source and can thus implement all sorts of goodies if you have the know-how and time. Rick Randall EECS Department University of California, San Diego rick%cs@ucsd.edu rrandall@ucsd [BITNET] rrandall@ucsd.edu [Internet] ...!ucsd!rrandall [UUCP]