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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out!
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:35:03 +0200
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Date: 2013-08-28T09:35:03+02:00
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:59:25 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:05:20 -0400, wilson <winslole@udayton.edu> declaimed
> the following:
> 
>>Thank you for saying something I have felt for years.  I always felt odd  
>>man out for this approach and it is good to have someone else say the same  
>>thing.
> 
> 	I've only made significant use of one debugger -- the one on DEC VMS.

Yes, that was the best debugger ever. GDB is trash.

There are bugs which are easier to catch using tracing, but also there are
some much easier to do with a visual debugger. It is difficult to say in
which relation they are.

I suspect that Ada eliminates more bugs of the second kind than of the
first kind.

On top of that comes the misery of GDB. I remember, in ObjectAda times,
which had more or less decent debugger, I used it time to time. But I never
managed to track any bug with GDB (under AdaGIDE and GPS). 

-- 
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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de