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Richard Wells <rdwells@mmm.com> wrote:

>Warren Young wrote:
>> Anyway, a relevant quote from the article: "One question I often ask a
>> programmer is, 'How good are you at using the debugger?'  If they're
>
>experience that the instability of the Mac OS when given a bad
>parameter to an OS or toolbox call makes a knowledge of a low-level
>debugger a necessity, if only to help track down where, exactly,
>the error is being caused (which is far too often quite different
>from where it is occuring!).

As I replied to someone else, Mr. Cowlishaw has pretty much always
used "real" OSes like IBM's VM and OS/2, which don't often experience
problems like this.  

Like you, about the only time I really use a debugger is when I'm
dealing with a sticky problem, often stupid-unprotected-OS-related.

To extend your opinion of MacsBugs, I'd actually count knowledge of
that (or similar tools on a PC) as a plus, because it indicates a good
tools awareness on the part of the programmer.  A candidate may be the
best coder in the world, but if they don't keep up with tools and
technologies, they're probably not going to be very useful to you.

= Warren --