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Article #2636Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
From: Johnston Ian (by ubsswop)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 17:44
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 17:44
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In article <cspt.1144.30867CCE@giraffe.ru.ac.za>, cspt@giraffe.ru.ac.za (Pat Terry) writes: |> In article <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org> "W. Wesley Groleau" <wgroleau@lear.mitre.org> writes: [snip] |> >Isn't Hoare the same guy that said the worst thing to ever happen to our |> >profession was the interactive debugger because people no longer try to |> >get it right the first time? |> |> >Is he contradicting himself, or am I misunderstanding him.? |> |> No contradiction. You don't have to use an interactive debugger to debug. |> |> And having one around sure makes lots of people lazy Hoare is right on both |> counts On the contrary, I find an interactive debugger extremely useful. I routinely run my code under the debugger -- before running it normally -- for visual verification. Besides, an interactive debugger is essential in the real world. Ian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!svnews.ubinet.ubs.com!ubszh!ubszh!jis From: jis@ubszh.net.ch (Johnston Ian (by ubsswop)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++) Date: 19 Oct 1995 17:44:12 GMT Organization: UBS Distribution: world Message-ID: <4662pc$kmi@ubszh.fh.zh.ubs.com> References: <44hcri$rsm@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <DFyAJF.KpC@research.att.com> <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> <45cj8d$red@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DG8y40.BMz@world.std.com> <KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org> <cspt.1144.30867CCE@giraffe.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: nol2179.fh.zh.ubs.com