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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Intervention needed?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:48:42 +0100
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On 3 Apr 2019, Niklas Holsti wrote
(in article <ggk8gpFasspU1@mid.individual.net>):

> On 19-04-03 01:07 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> > Does anyone spend much time in a debugger when writing Ada?
>
> I don't. I can't remember when I last used gdb or any other debugger,
> and in my ~30 years of Ada use I estimate that I have used a debugger on
> perhaps ten occasions.

I can trump that.
I have *never* used a "debugger" in much the same time with Ada.

~30 years ago I raced an experienced programmer who was looking
for an error in his code with the DEC Ada debugger, while I
inspected his compilation listing. I won.

-- 
Bill Findlay