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On 29-Dec-14 00:48, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Moreover, GPS is just a front-end to gdb, and gdb is presumably the most
> used debugger in the world (at least in the world of free software).

Popular ("most used") doesn't mean anything about wither the overall 
quality or the more-specific usability. As far as debugging goes, the 
old Lisp-Machines apparently had debugging environments that put many 
modern debuggers to shame.