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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]
Date: 25 Oct 1994 12:21:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: dewar@cs.nyu.edu's message of 19 Oct 1994 11:51:35 -0400
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In article <383fa7$29i@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
   ... Stephen, believe me, the *great* majority of Lisp programmers would feel
   lost without a debugger. ...

I can believe they might be lost without a read-eval-print loop, but a
read-eval-print loop is not a debugger.