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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mini-flame: Debugging Techniques
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Date: 8 Apr 90 23:48:10 GMT
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In article <11051@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:

[Complains about people posting problems without working hard enough
on them first.]

>Long-timers will notice that I'm giving many fewer answers here than I
>have in the past.

Long-timers also remember that you once came frothing to the net about
a 'bug' in Lightspeed C.  It turned out you had simply dereferenced a
handle while moving memory, and if you'd read the Memory Manager chapter
in Inside Mac you would have seen an explicit warning about the mistake
you made.  This is not not say that I completely disagree with your
mini-flame, but I hope you'll acknowledge that problems are often hard
to spot when you're too close to them.  In sum, it's not surprising
that people post their programming woes.  A few words from an expert
probably saves them hours and hours, and they only have to endure a
few insults to get the advice.

Jonathan

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