From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddc669e8cf09b24 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-11 07:35:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Debugger Rant (was Re: How to debug an Ada program) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:36:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1vhtgvs1sjofficm8q0mt3smlftbksp8lt@4ax.com> References: <254c16a.0307110505.463b1cc0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1057934158 7163869 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40194 Date: 2003-07-11T16:36:42+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:26:19 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol wrote: >I don't say you shouldn't use a debugger, of course not, but what most >people point out is that you don't need it so much as a common bug >hunting tool as you do need in more weakly typed languages. I think that a good visual debugger (in a good IDE) is essential to make Ada popular. There always could be semantic bugs, which no language can catch, and no programmer can avoid. But more important is that to become popular means that Ada would be used by masses of *uexperienced* [and even uneducated (:-))] users. One cannot expect them writting bug-free algorithms or much thinking about what their program is supposed to do. I wonder if popularity of a language is directly reflected by the overal percentage of bad code written in the language. The higher is the percentage, the more popular is the language. And what does one with bad code? Debug it! --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de