NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/system/15534

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SADE --- the worst debugger I ever used!!!!!
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Date: 24 Dec 92 23:46:35 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> (comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer), [e-mail] (Olaf Maennig) writes:
>
> Okay, that's what I went through the last few weeks. Now, the most important
> question to me: IS THERE ANOTHER AND BETTER DEBUGGER OUT THERE?

Most professional programmers I know use Jasik's The Debugger.  It's
worth its weight in gold when you are deep into debugging your code.

It's not perfect, the user interface is a bid hard to learn at first,
but once you're up to speed it's a real pleasure to use.

It's both a high level debugger and a low level debugger.  This means
that you can view and step through your C or pascal source and with
a single click view the assembler code interspersed with your source.
You can view memory as hex or symbolically as data structures.  All
this is based on the .SYM file that MPW generates (same as SADE).

It's available from the usual programmer outlets like APDA.

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