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 Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:47:16AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Rocky, > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:40:53 -0400 > Rocky Bernstein <rocky.bernst...@gmail.com> 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. Why was this not > > more widely adopted? > > I guess not too many people need to write custom debuggers. Furthermore, it > seems that many Perl developers avoid using the debugger in favour of print > statements and other stuff like that. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality > > Quark: “Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. But only for your customers”. > Rule of acquisition No. 172. > — Star Trek, “We, the Living Dead” by Shlomi Fish > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .