in reply to Favourite GUI Debuggers

Komodo is great, in fact really good despite being commercial!

Generally I use Eclipse with EPIC Perl editor plug-in, largely because I am not a GUI dependant user and it suits my style of working.

jdtoronto

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Re: Re: Favourite GUI Debuggers
by xenchu (Friar) on Dec 12, 2003 at 15:47 UTC

    Not that it makes any difference to the answer, but isn't Komodo fairly expensive? I have heard it is about $300 a seat. (Well, that seems expensive to me, anyway.)

    xenchu



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      I'm the only one around here (work) who shops for opensource software (sometimes unsuccessfully). Everyone else wants the latest and greatest MS products. Comparatively speaking, <$300 is cheap.

      Me... I still use 'print' statements in my code for debugging purposes. I know it's old, and please don't tell me that i'm nuts for doing it, it's an old dog, new tricks issue.

        I still use 'print' statements in my code for debugging purposes. I know it's old, and please don't tell me that i'm nuts for doing it . . .

        You're not. Larry Wall once said he prefers prints over debuggers, too. I've heard similar things from other programmers over the years whose opinion I respect. Of course, there are a significant number of great programmers out there that use debuggers, too, so this isn't a clear-cut issue.

        The only time I've actually used a debugger is in the very little VB I've done, and only then because getting something printed in a language that is heavily tied to a GUI is really annoying.

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