On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:20, Shawn H. Corey<shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote: snip > Komodo doesn't work on my machine and since it's propriety, I can't get its > source to compile it. snip
Odd, it works just fine on my OS X box, my Linux box, and I hear it works in MS Windows. You must be using a flavor of BSD other than OS X. snip > DDD is little more than a GUI wrapper around a command-line debugger. snip And your point is? That GUI Wrapper is what makes a visual debugger better than a commandline debugger. And I wouldn't say "little more". It adds graphing capabilities that the commandline debugger never dreamed of. snip > As for the Perl modules, they might have come in handy back then, but now I > have worked out techniques to do debugging without them. So, they're little > more than something else I have to remember. Little value added, at least, > for me. snip The point of a REPL is that you can drop into the code at that point in the execution and run arbitrary code and then _restart_ the original code. This means you can do everything the print statement could do and more. You can fix bad values to see if that corrects the problem, change the data to try to trigger the bug, etc. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
