AdaCore Revs Up IDE; Powerful, Simple-to-use GNAT Programming Studio Streamlines Software Development, Supports Wide Range of Operating Systems.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AdaCore today introduced GPS 3.0, a highly upgraded version of the company's advanced Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) that is already the IDE of choice for GNAT gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Pro and Ada developers. GPS (GNAT Programming Studio GNAT Programming Studio (GPS, formerly known as the GNAT Programming System) is a free multi-language integrated development environment (IDE) by AdaCore. GPS uses compilers from the GNU Compiler Collection, taking its name from GNAT, the GNU compiler for the Ada ) 3.0 is aimed at streamlining Ada and multi-language software development from the initial coding stage through testing, debugging, system integration, and maintenance. GPS 3.0 offers advanced features, such as multi-language support (including Ada, C, and C++), and support on a wide range of host environments for both native and cross-development platforms, including UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows and GNU/Linux. An intuitive, unified visual interface, identical across all platforms, serves as a control panel to access tools from AdaCore's GNAT Pro Ada development environment as well as from third parties, easing both development and maintenance. As a result, GPS 3.0 is particularly suited for large, complex systems requiring tool chain integration, ease of use, user customization, and code navigation/analysis tools. "Most embedded IDEs are targeted to one operating system platform, which limits both extensibility and adaptability," said Robert Dewar, president of AdaCore. "GPS 3.0 not only supports a wide variety of commercial platforms, but also is adaptable enough to be used with proprietary operating systems. Our platform-independent visual interface is also very easy to learn and use Easy to learn refers to software that is well designed and capable of being used right away without having to wade through documentation. If you make the program work with little effort, it is easy to learn. , which increases programmer productivity and ultimately speeds time-to-market." GPS 3.0 provides many new improvements from previous releases, including: --Automatic documentation generation from Ada sources --Support for remote debugging/compilation --Support for inter-process communication between GPS and external tools --New visual comparison tool --Visualization of Ada metrics --Outline view, dynamically showing the code structure in the current editor --Improved project editing, including support for library projects As with all GNAT Pro components, GPS 3.0 is distributed with full source code and is backed by AdaCore's rapid and expert online support. About GPS GPS is a powerful IDE written in Ada, based on the GtkAda toolkit. GPS's extensive source-code navigation and analysis tools can generate a broad range of useful information, including call graphs, source dependencies, project organization, and complexity metrics. It also provides support for configuration management through an interface to third-party Version Control Systems, and supports a variety of platforms, including Alpha Tru64, Altix Linux, MIPS-IRIX, PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill Solaris, x86 GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. Linux, x86 Solaris, and x86 Windows. GPS is highly extensible; a simple scripting approach enables additional tool integration. It is also tailorable, allowing programmers to specialize various aspects of the program's appearance in the editor for a user-specified look and feel. Pricing and Availability GPS 3.0 is part of the GNAT Pro toolset available today from AdaCore. Please contact AdaCore for the latest information on pricing and supported configurations. (sales@adacore.com) About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product is GNAT Pro, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and Altix are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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