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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: Record operations (Algebraic Data Types and printing)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:45:51 +0200
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Björn Lundin wrote:

> When a system is deployed, and there is no debugger attached, and an
> incident occur (malfunction/crash/whatever), I am very happy to look
> at the logs.

Same here.

> Debugging is then not an option, since it occurred in the past, and
> may be very difficult - if not impossible - to reproduce.

Actually, you can connect "gdb" to an already running process, but it is
of course limited what that can tell you about what went wrong before
you connected "gdb" to the process.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"Don't get me wrong, perl is an OK operating system, but it
 lacks a lightweight scripting language."