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From: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SADE
Keywords: Anybody out there using it?
Message-ID: <2045@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 23:18:29 GMT
References: <3494@mit-amt>
Reply-To: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <3494@mit-amt> phil@mit-amt (Phil Sohn) writes:
>
>        Could someone give me a brief description of SADE?  How
>does it compare to the THINK debugger?  Does SADE use a "Mac-like
>interface" or is it more in the spirit of MPW?

Well, even MPW uses a "Mac-like" interface...

Anyways, SADE does have a "WorkSheet" exactly like MPW in which you can
type commands.  It has menus that look almost exactly like MPW's: It has
Find, Mark, and Window.  It also supports scripts like MPW, however, the
command language is different in many places (it's debugger oriented, of
course).

Compared to THINK C's debugger, I'd have to say that SADE is quite a bit
more difficult to learn.  However, I think that SADE for me will be much
easier to use, since I can customize it exactly like I want it, for each
project that I work on.  SADE's command language is about as difficult to
learn as the MPW command language.

SADE can show quite a bit more that the LSC debugger.  It'll show you the
heap in a neat way, it'll show you all the FCBs in the system, it will
show you all the resource in the system in a neat way.  It does quite a
few more things (the programmers even stuck in a factorial function).

All in all, both are nice.  If you have a spare 5 mb, go for SADE.  If
you only have 2mb, LSC debugger is the route to go.  I've got both here
(I'm staring at them both now also), and I like them both.

BTW, SADE is standalone, which means that if other compiler writers can
make their compilers spit out SADE symbolic information, you could use SADE
with them.  I don't know where to find the format of the .SYM file yet,
though.

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