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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SDB: What no menus?
Message-ID: <313@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 20:28:15 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In a pervious posting Mr. Schwab writes:
>	Conclusion:  Debuggers are for weenies.
>
>	So there.  Nyahh!  PTHhptbhptbhtptbhpbtbhpttt!!!		:-)
>
>[ This myopic view of debuggers is brought to you by near-sighted programmer
>with a fashion sense only 400 years out of date whose only exposure to
>debuggers were those available on the C-64. ]

[Smiley mode ON please!]

Oh man...you've been missing out!  My view of C (and Pascal)
programming was completely turned around (well, maybe not in the case
of Pascal ;-) when I discovered such useful tools as SDB and DBX on
UNIX.  They've helped me out of a tight corner more than once.  And
even though they are awkward and somewhat buggy, I have worked on
projects that would have been much much harder without a symbolic
debugger (like, writing one program in two-and-a-half different
languages and tying the modules together via linking).  Symoblic
debuggers a definite plus in my book.

Your fashion sense may be a bit out-dated (although it will likely
come back into style soon ;-), but I urge you to update your style in
debuggers!

[Smiley mode OFF please!]

						-Chris

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Chris Lishka                    /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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