> just like many people, I have made good use of dtrace myself. but the > need for a tool like that seems to me one more evidence of the trend > in talk about in your first post. in the pile of layers one has to dig > to find/fix/rework something, sometimes dtrace seems like the better - > or even the only one at hand - thing to deal with it. > put short: dtrace-like tools are good but, in general, having the need > for it is not.
it's abstractions, all the way down. at least until mack burps. he always does. - erik
