Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!claris!peirce
From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp pascal compiler
Message-ID: <10863@claris.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 19:47:28 GMT
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Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <10759@zodiac.ADS.COM> anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>In article <10859@claris.com>, peirce@claris (Michael Peirce) writes:
>>
>>It's saved me a lot of time and has been well worth the trouble to me.
>
>What trouble?  I'd be interested to know since I'm starting to think
>that I might want to use it.
>

I was afraid someone would ask that :-)

Well, Jasik's debugger provides lots of power.  Low level power to rival
Macsbug or TMON and high level power to rival SADE.  But there is a price
to pay.  

It's a fairly intrusive debugger, it doesn't just sit quietly until called
on like Macsbug or TMON.  It also doesn't get along with a few inits.
It has a few bugs too (though Jasik is very responsive about fixing them
when you tell him about them).  And lastly, the UI is, well, a little strange.

A poor analogy might be to view it as a chain saw.  I wouldn't want to go
back to hand saws, but when you hit a snag, stand back!

Again, it's the best debugger out there, but it's still far from perfect.

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