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From: wdh@well.sf.ca.us (Bill Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SADE Sucks!  (Or which debugger do _you_ use?)
Message-ID: <22349@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 Dec 90 06:11:41 GMT
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In article <47625@apple.Apple.COM> das@Apple.COM (David Shayer) writes:
>There is no other debugger that comes close to being as easy to use
>as the Think C/Pascal debuggers.  If you're in MPW, you're just stuck.
>
>David

True, to a point.  If, and note that *is* a big if, you are willing to spend
a day or two setting it up the first time, Jasik's Debugger is powerful and
worthwhile.  It works with THINK C application projects (reasonably well)
and with MPW output (anything you can generate a .SYM file for) marvelously
well.  It provides both source and assembly debugging, useful for those of
us who *still* can't write C code after 10 years (where *do* those parens
go in "if (a&0x01 == 0)"), and allows you to look at your types and variables.
It *is* a tool for the not-faint-of-heart, but I think it pays off in
productivity in the long run.

-Bill