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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Gnat on OpenVMS
Date: 1999/05/27
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Thierry Lelegard <lelegard@club-internet.fr> a �crit dans le message :
7if0bu$mph$1@front5.grolier.fr...
> > ..., and having a compiler would be much more important
> > than having the best debugger.
>
> Two points I would like to comment:
> 1. compiler more important than debugger
> 2. best debugger
>
> 1. I think that the compiler and the debugger are (almost)
> equally important. Once an application is written by the
> average human programmer, it usually does not work (and
> PLEASE do not tell me that this not true with Ada, I have
> seen horrible things in Ada due to horrible programmers).

So, what about fixing the programmers ? :-)

But don't hold you breath, GDB wont be able to debug programmers
for at least one more century :-)

Pascal.