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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: Debugger Rant
Date: 19 Jul 2003 11:51:49 +0200
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I have started this thread. As I said when working in Ada you have less
often a need for a debugger. I still maintain this claim, and this does
not mean that with Ada you just don't need a debugger as some have promptly
understood.
I have, like most of you probably, build some C/C++ applications and some in
Ada. My experiences are that for an Ada application I do rarely used a
debugger. That's the feedback I can give and I understand that other can have
other experiences. Maybe this is due to the way we build software in Ada. Block
by block we build abstractions and test them as soon as possible, this means
that most of the problems are fixed early on and are not to be debugged during
integration.
Just my 2 cents!
Pascal.
PS: Again, I have not said that a debugger is not useful with Ada!
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