On 18 July 2010 23:15, Rick C. Hodgin <foxmuldrs...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Jonathan, > > If you run Linux, you can download VMware, and install a version of > Windows XP or later)
I don't have a licence to do that. > and download Visual Studio Express from Microsoft > for free. You can experiment with it and see how useful it is. It's > pretty darned amazing actually. Once you use it, you'll always miss it. > Simple little mistakes like: > > for (i=0; i<some_var; ++i) > > which should've been: > for (i=0; i<(some_var-1); ++i) > > can be changed on the fly. Those simple, tiny little mistakes that are > prevalent, save so much time by going "OH MAN!" smacking your forehead, > changing it quickly, and pressing the key combo to apply changes. > > It all takes 3 seconds, and you're continuing at the point in your > program where you were. Maybe we work on different kinds of program, but if I find the bug I'm looking for I don't usually stay in the debugger. The usefulness of this feature isn't really relevant on this list though, if it's useful to others then it doesn't matter much if I want to use it.
