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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SDB: What no menus?
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Date: 28 Mar 88 17:42:55 GMT
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In article <5550@well.UUCP| ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
|In article <7901@oberon.USC.EDU| I [papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)] write:
||After having used SDB for over a month to debug 2 commercial programs
||I concur with the above quote and more: I think SDB is the best thing
||that was invented after sliced bread :-)  [ ... ]  At
||this point in time, any commercial developer that is NOT using SDB is
||clearly shooting himself in the foot, [ ... ]

|	I have never encountered a bug that I couldn't have discovered by
|taking a good, studious look at the source code.

First, not everybody is a Leo Schwab.  Second, some humans [yes, you are
excluded Leo :-)] find it easier to see the "dynamic" of an executing program
while stepping through it, than looking at a "static" piece of paper.
Also, I am very lazy and prefer to just single step or breakpoint looking
at the code in another window.  Also when the code is more than 5,000 line
long, I sincerely don't remember what is going on, especially if it is
code I wrote over two years ago.

|	Further, I have never encountered a debugger that didn't introduce
|more problems than it solved.

So far I have not found one problem that was introduced by SDB that I didn't
already have before. Maybe I have been lucky.  Is there anybody else that
has done some serious debugging with SDB?

-- Marco Papa

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