From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked+caml@naked.iki.fi>
To: <donna+spam@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:52:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8rjhur6.fsf@naked.iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <!~!AAAAAJOwVq2HeURFjPF/cT+K05uE3isA@cs.cmu.edu> (donna's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:31:33 -0500")
donna wrote:
> 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?
Yes, very. Especially in OCaml for its ability to step backwards as
well as forwards in the program execution. And I use it in completely
functional code.
Personally I'd say that I use the OCaml debugger more often for OCaml
code than gdb for C code - but less often than I use the perl debugger
for perl code.
> - Is there any sort of general opinion in the OCaml community about
> the debugger?
I have no idea.
-- Naked
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 4:31 donna+spam
2004-02-04 8:18 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-02-04 8:46 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-04 9:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jan Kybic
2004-02-04 10:15 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2004-02-04 10:30 ` Pierre Boulet
2004-02-04 15:04 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-02-04 19:26 ` Kip Macy
2004-02-04 10:36 ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2004-02-04 15:38 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 12:52 ` Nuutti Kotivuori [this message]
2004-02-04 15:35 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 16:45 ` Ken Rose
2004-02-04 19:12 ` Issac Trotts
2004-02-22 21:21 ` _JusSx_
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