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Article #2361better than 4-port debugger
From: jim
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 01:12
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 01:12
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IMHO, four-port debugging may be fine as an underlying model, but is bad as a view of that model. recently, i was doing some partial evaluation work and the strutures i was generating filled several lines on my 4-port debugger. what i would have prefered is a debugger ala Smalltalk where the call history is on a click and point list in a window and clicking on item in that list pops up another window with all the arguments listed in another list. clicking on any one argument would print it to a third window. sound tricky, right? actually, its wonderfully easy to use. the debugger was one of the main reasons I switched from KEE on a LISP machine to Smalltalk/V under DOS. I had all the debugging productivity and none of the LISP machine overheads. tim menzies. (timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au)
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