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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Mixing Ada and C++. Is a good idea?
Date: 1997/11/14
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<<Yes, and that too is well worth the warning.  When I said you could waste
project weeks on this, I wasn't talking about something I read about
somewhere.  The root cause was only discovered by assembly-level debugging
of generated code after the development team had stalled, their fancy
source-level debuggers having proved useless.
>>

Debuggers are a poor substitute for knowing the languages that you work
with properly. Sure I can see how poorly trained programmers could be
confused about the semantics of sizeof and 'Size, but this is the kind
of error that good programmers avoid in the first place. How such an
error could take weeks to find is beyond me. But I guess people can be
arbitrarily non-productive when they get dragged into the debugger mire.