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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Summary of responses [was: What would you like from a debugger?]
- Message-ID: <34304@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 22:04:33 GMT
- References: <bosullvn.713613694@unix1.tcd.ie> <id.SKBS.RIL@ferranti.com> <BEVAN.92Aug14130951@jaguar.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <id.SKBS.RIL@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- > In article <bosullvn.713613694@unix1.tcd.ie> bosullvn@unix1.tcd.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan) writes:
- > > I haven't decided yet what constitutes the smallest
- > > debugger I can get away with, but such things as printing data
- > > structures and their contents on the fly are out of the question.
- >
- > Embed an interpreted language in the debugger (drive it from TCL?).
- >
- >You mean like Norman Ramsey's use of PostScript as the "little
- >language" with which to drive his debugger "ldb"?
-
- >Note it also mentions TCL and FORTH as possible language, but notes
- >that: "The latter [TCL and FORTH] two offer too few datatypes"
-
- Amiga debuggers have used Lisp-like extension languages (Wack), and
- newer debuggers have been using Rexx (which is pretty powerful, very easy
- to use interactively, and provides exceedingly easy interapplication
- communication, since it was designed as a macro language to be used by multiple
- applications). Rexx is being standardized by ANSI currently, and is the
- standard macro language on the Amiga now.
-
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- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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