Indeed.
You have to remember that just because some of us *like* using the debugger,
many people do not. And there is a special kind of snobbery involved, something
along the lines of:
"Oh, so you NEED to use the debugger, do you....?"
Should be read aloud with raised eyebrows ;-)
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:47:16AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Rocky,
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:40:53 -0400
> Rocky Bernstein <rocky.bernst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > http://perldoc.perl.org/DB.html mentions a "programmatic interface to
> > the Perl debugging API".
> >
> > As far as I can tell it hasn't really changed at all since Perl 5.8
> > and not much between that and 5.6 except bug fixes. Why was this not
> > more widely adopted?
>
> I guess not too many people need to write custom debuggers. Furthermore, it
> seems that many Perl developers avoid using the debugger in favour of print
> statements and other stuff like that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
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