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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: One of the worst Amiga programs ever--Manx SDB
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Date: 11 Apr 90 03:58:10 GMT
References: <7116@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <7116@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> moster@iris.ucdavis.edu (Richard Haynes Moster) writes:
>	Does anyone feel the same way I do?

No, I can't say that I do.  SDB has saved me hundreds of hours of debugging
time; I use it every day.

If you want to use it with floating point, you have to use the right libraries.

If you don't want it to crash, don't compile with optimization.  That is 
documented.

Also, don't resize the window during startup until SDB has finished writing
to it for the first time.  Bogus, admittedly, but hardly fatal.

Granted, it's not perfect, and it does have some problems with arrays, although
that seems to be more with command-line-specified indexes -- it doesn't always
get the index right, so you have to go 0, 2, 4, instead of 0, 1, 2, but... one
of the worst programs ever on the Amiga???  Hardly.  In my book, as a 
developer, despite its flaws, one of the most useful ever.

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