From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA09371; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:32:50 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA08836 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:32:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp2.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i144WmP27127 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:32:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from Donna (pool-141-151-188-142.pitt.east.verizon.net [141.151.188.142]) (user=dmalayer mech=LOGIN (0 bits)) by smtp2.andrew.cmu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i144VWfP003206 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:31:33 -0500 From: To: Subject: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger? Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:31:33 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0075_01C3EAAD.DC248AD0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 0000000093B056AD877944458CF17F713F8AD39BC4DE2B00 Thread-Index: AcPq14ApXNhdyvI3TDqpCNJ2rLVN5g== X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; donna:99 debugger:01 advisor:99 debuggers:01 debugger:01 donna:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 functional:06 functional:06 impression:06 uses:06 crawl:10 language:10 message:89 X-Attachments: type="application/ms-tnef" name="winmail.dat" name="winmail.dat" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C3EAAD.DC248AD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, My advisor and I were having a dicussion about the utility of debuggers for functional langugages. He was of the opinion that they are not very useful at all (for a functional language), and wondered if anyone even uses, for instance, the OCaml debugger. Based on google-ing I have done, it looks like it *is* used, but it's hard to get a good impression from just a web crawl. So: - Do you personally find the OCaml debugger useful? - Is there any sort of general opinion in the OCaml community about the debugger? Thanks! - Donna [This is a re-post, since I wasn't sure it worked the first time. 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