Well, that's a scary story, in a lot of ways... when I first started playing with the perl debugger I found that some people have a prejudice against debuggers, essentially because they argue that the debugger makes it possible to get code working without understanding it very well.

There's at least a *bit* of truth there... it's true that I resort to stepping through code when I'm having trouble just reading it... but it's always seemed to me that using the debugger encourages me to be a little neater (e.g. all of a sudden I care about having explicit return lines a lot, because that's a place where the debugger can pause... otherwise it returns on you and you lose the scope and can't examine any of the intermediate values any more).

(The difference in perspective between management and programmer's is always a problem... the last place I was working it was hard to convince management that writing tests and doucmentation is not a waste of time. I had the feeling that there were people there who were adrenaline junkies who kind of enjoyed it when things broke... then the whole team comes together and scrambles around finding a fix, and there's a sense of group accomplishment.)

In reply to Re^5: [EMACS] "Emacs as Perl IDE" - Abstract for YAPC::EU 2016 ( A tale about IDE usage ) by doom
in thread [EMACS] "Emacs as Perl IDE" - Abstract for YAPC::EU 2016 by LanX

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