From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]
Date: 11 Oct 1994 09:37:26 -0400
Date: 1994-10-11T09:37:26-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37e4em$klf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37dp17$gp6@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
OK Richard, you are right, it isn't LISP that likes debuggers. That for me was
a shorthand for "typical LISP programmers", or "the spirit of LISP" or
somesuch.
I think the reason that highly dynamic languages tend to like to use
debuggers (in the same general sense as para 1 above :-) is that almost
all error detection is put off till runtime, and so the normal style is
throw code together, try to run it, and then remove the bugs. Second it
is easy to change code on the fly from within the debugger in LISP, so
one gets to a point where the debugger is not merely a debugger but
essentially a programming environment.
I am not saying this is good, and I am not saying this is the only way to
program Lisp. I am just observing what from what I see and hear around me
seems to be the most typical usage patterns.
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Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-29 20:08 Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?] John DiCamillo
1994-09-30 13:45 ` David Weller
1994-10-01 21:40 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-03 9:53 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-03 20:41 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-04 8:41 ` Robb Nebbe
[not found] ` <85C825A689A@annwfn.com>
1994-10-13 14:40 ` John Volan
1994-10-13 21:14 ` Matt Kennel
1994-10-14 0:37 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-14 10:16 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-10-14 20:43 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-13 22:01 ` Val Kartchner
1994-10-14 1:38 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-14 9:31 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-10-14 16:16 ` Child packages [nn,pedo,incest,cons] Robert Firth
1994-10-14 17:13 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-17 8:18 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-10-17 11:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-17 21:54 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-18 10:30 ` Child packages Robb Nebbe
1994-10-18 9:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-18 19:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-19 11:03 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-19 16:24 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-19 23:13 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-20 14:06 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-20 11:09 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-20 19:02 ` Benjamin Ketcham
1994-10-20 17:08 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-20 16:37 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-20 16:40 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-21 14:02 ` Mark Biggar, 5172
1994-10-21 8:48 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-10-19 18:54 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-20 0:27 ` Matt Kennel
1994-10-20 8:21 ` Magnus Kempe
1994-10-20 13:52 ` John Volan
1994-10-19 16:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-04 14:44 ` Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?] Robert Dewar
1994-10-04 15:53 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <36h4pc$9dd@starbase.neosoft.com>
1994-09-30 20:15 ` Benjamin Ketcham
1994-10-02 16:30 ` Robin Rowe
1994-10-02 18:00 ` David Weller
1994-10-03 15:55 ` Netspeak: What is "trolling"? Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-03 17:04 ` Kenneth Aubey 913-4481
1994-10-03 21:06 ` Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?] John DiCamillo
1994-10-04 0:29 ` David Weller
1994-10-04 17:42 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-05 8:18 ` Magnus Kempe
1994-10-05 13:49 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <36q7m5$4ef@starbase.neosoft.com>
1994-10-04 17:55 ` Robin Rowe
1994-10-04 22:42 ` Tucker Taft
1994-10-03 9:22 ` Andrew Lees
1994-10-03 21:31 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-04 23:29 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-05 3:52 ` Robin Rowe
1994-10-05 13:15 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 13:54 ` David Weller
[not found] ` <36uhnl$4c1@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
[not found] ` <37dp17$gp6@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
1994-10-11 13:37 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-10-19 11:24 ` Stephen J Bevan
1994-10-19 15:51 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-25 12:21 ` Stephen J Bevan
1994-10-05 17:08 ` Ted Dennison
[not found] ` <36msgr$qq2@starbase.neosoft.com>
1994-10-04 7:21 ` Ada compared to C++ Robin Rowe
1994-10-05 6:44 ` Bob Kitzberger
1994-10-05 12:02 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 18:20 ` Bob Kitzberger
1994-10-05 8:44 ` Magnus Kempe
1994-10-05 19:55 ` David Weller
[not found] ` <1994Oct6.133002.1@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com>
1994-10-16 3:30 ` Mark S. Hathaway
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