CompuServe Thread

Dubuggers? Why?

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#101613From: Kevin NorthoverMay 1, 1990 9:15 PM
personally I prefer interpretative debuggers. Ever used Saber-C on a Sun? With the new generation machines I'm likely to prototype in Rexx then port for production for this reason. Right now I do prototyping and algorithm development in Modula-2 and port my release code, which has to go to a Unix environment to C later. It may be a convoluted way of doing things but I have to write enough code in C for my regular job and I find a complete shift of mindset outweighs all the differences between languages. This Manx/Lattice debate has become very silly, who cares? Anyway wasn't it supposed(??) to be the ultimate portable language?
#102119From: Vic WagnerMay 3, 1990 4:25 PM
Yeah, 'portable C'….now there's a laugh. Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
#102171From: Kevin NorthoverMay 3, 1990 8:19 PM
I'm really trying to stop this languages debate, not fan it. The following (1960) quote from S. Gill, one of the early pioneers of automatic programming really summarizes my views on the whole subject. "If computers had existed in the Middle Ages, programmers would have been burned at the stake by other programmers for heresy" Perhaps we should all reflect on this.
#102236From: Black Belt SystemsMay 3, 1990 11:22 PM
Not yet – I'm not finished gathering combustibles for Mike's immenant demise in the flames. Soons I light him off, we can reflect on it. Ben Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S