From: wfrye@mnsinc.com (William Frye)
Subject: Re: debugger debate (was: any research...)
Date: 1997/04/25
Date: 1997-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5jqfnt$era@news1.mnsinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9704221332.AA06103@most
W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) (wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM) wrote:
: > ... debuggers ... are hardly ever necessary if the code ia
: > properly designed. Either the bug will not occur ... or it
: > will obviously be in module 'x' function 'y' .....
: > ... many programmers use a debugger to watch what their code is doing
: > as a replacement for understanding it.
: But those of us that congratulate ourselves for not needing a debugger
: most of the time can end up embarassed when we do need it and don't know
: how to operate it! (Voice of experience...)
And, for maintenance programmers, understanding the design (specially
for code that isn't properly documented) is a luxury we may not be given.
Often a problem has to be fixed yesterday, so you plug away and pray.
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