Re: What is the history behind the DB module?

2012-09-14 Thread Rocky Bernstein
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Rocky, > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:40:53 -0400 > Rocky Bernstein 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 si

Re: What is the history behind the DB module?

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Foley
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 ;-) -- Ciao

Re: What is the history behind the DB module?

2012-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rocky, On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:40:53 -0400 Rocky Bernstein 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. Wh