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- From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Debugging feats (was Re: Why would you like a debugger (Was: What would you like in a debugger?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.165324.27749@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:53:24 GMT
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- In article <1241@esl.ESL.COM> davida@barney.esl.com (David Alexander) writes:
- > [problem with big WEB program]
- >Then we had our weekly meeting, and as we're talking, Prof. Knuth
- >is flipping through my WEB source which he had never been shown before, and
- >about 40 pages into the listing, in the middle of our discussion, he says,
- >"By the way, here's your NIL pointer error..." Of course he was correct.
-
- Not to deny Knuth's ability, but it is also possible that he has seen so
- many people make the same mistake over and over that he can pick out the
- bug by doing local pattern matching. I know that when I was "student
- advisor" in the computer room, I used to amaze students by picking out
- their bugs before they can even tell me the symtoms. (I don't think I was
- unique at all). Not knowing anything about WEB or the program in question,
- this is mere speculation.
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