Though I've never met Linus, I suspect retorting to him would be futile, given his parting shot was "Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it!". :) Update: It seems Linus is now a reformed character (from Organizational Culture (Part V): Behavior).

Based on the code you posted, I feel the most relevant quotes for you are from Pike, Martin, and especially Graham-Cumming:

I suspect that the same people who use debuggers all the time are the same people who don't unit test their code
and Conway:
fix the test suite first by adding tests that cause it to fail ... once the test suite is detecting the problem correctly, then you'll be able to tell when you've correctly fixed the actual bug, because the tests will once again fall silent

That is, with clean, well-designed code with unit tests there should be less need to fire up the debugger. I suggest you at least consider the option of replacing hours of never-ending crack-pipe debugging sessions with enjoyable creative hours of Test Driven Development.

In reply to Re^3: Using the perl debugger to look at a renaming files function by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Using the perl debugger to look at a renaming files function by Aldebaran

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