On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:54AM +0000, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> >>        Given the feedback on suggestions about perl debugger tutorials, I
> >>don't think many perl *users* use the debugger, so to me that explains why
> >>no-one in the world noticed it sooner. To most perl users, the debugger is
> >>not fundamental.
> >
> >I'd use it if I knew how <shrug>.
> 
> The perl debugger is about as much fun as ed. Also, many people use perl 
> wrapped up inside some web environment which makes it not conducive to 
> debugging with the debugger.
> 
> But I think that's a shame, because a debugger really ought to be more 
> fun than print statements. For all I know Activestate's Visual Debugger 
> is great. In fact I think I'll try it out.

Unless I had a particularly strange dream a few years back, I thought
ddd gave a gui front-end to Perl's -d with all the usual features.

<checks ddd man-page>Yup.

I don't use it either tho'
-- 
Chris Benson

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