On 2006.09.06, Rick Gutleber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As much as it would please, however, me to be able to step through Tcl > code, I think Dossy is correct. You really can live without one.
I think the point here is, if you force yourself to live without one, it demands that you become a better programmer. Either that, or spend a lot of time chasing down stupid bugs without the debugger. Just because a debugger reduces the time you spend chasing down stupid bugs, it doesn't force you to become a better programmer. When you have a debugger, what's your incentive for becoming a better programmer? Where's the "pain" that you work hard to avoid? Remembering and carefully avoiding past mistakes (why bother, when you can just root them out in the debugger)? Improving your fundamental design repertoire to eliminate known bad decisions (why bother, the debugger will let you finagle your way through even the worst of rats nests)? Perhaps that's the wisdom that Linus was trying to impart, here. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
