Re: What is the history behind the DB module?

Hi Rocky,

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:40:53 -0400
Rocky Bernstein <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://perldoc.perl.org/DB.html mentions a "programmatic interface to
> the Perl debugging API".
>=20
> As far as I can tell it hasn't really changed at all since Perl 5.8
> and not much between that and 5.6 except bug fixes. Why was this not
> more widely adopted?

I guess not too many people need to write custom debuggers. Furthermore, it
seems that many Perl developers avoid using the debugger in favour of print
statements and other stuff like that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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