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KingBahamut
August 12th, 2005, 09:24 PM
Debugging large amounts of code sucks.

Just had to gripe.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

jerome bettis
August 12th, 2005, 09:26 PM
no kidding that's why you debug small amounts of code before they becomre large.

KingBahamut
August 12th, 2005, 09:46 PM
apt-get install debugger-thatworksinrealtimeasiwritethecodelinebyline

Lord Illidan
August 12th, 2005, 09:47 PM
Debugging large amounts of code sucks.

Couldn't agree more........

Mr. Electric Wizard
August 12th, 2005, 09:49 PM
I guess it depends on whether or not you can step through the code and have decent debugging tools...
What language are you debuggin?

KingBahamut
August 12th, 2005, 09:55 PM
C code, alot of it.

Mr. Electric Wizard
August 12th, 2005, 09:57 PM
Have you tried debugging using VisualStudio?

(**grabs shield to deflect thrown rocks**)

KingBahamut
August 12th, 2005, 10:01 PM
That Better be a Winged Shield at +5 , because I dont toss rocks.....2 +5 Holy Avengers , Held by a 20/18/18/10/10/10 Orc with a +2 Strength modifer on top of his racial class mods.

Stormy Eyes
August 13th, 2005, 01:24 AM
C code, alot of it.

Quit yer bitching. :) I get to deal with legacy VB6 code, and the guy who owns the company absolutely forbids the use of non-Microsoft tools. I'm lucky he lets me use Vim, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird on my machine at work.

Jean-Paul Sartre was mistaken, by the way. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other people's code.

xequence
August 13th, 2005, 02:00 AM
I get to deal with legacy VB6 code

Isnt VB6 a really bad language? I use it but im not that good o.O

Stormy Eyes
August 13th, 2005, 02:20 AM
Isnt VB6 a really bad language? I use it but im not that good o.O

It is pure evil. It's crippled by a half-assed implementation of object-oriented principles. For the love of Hell, it doesn't even have inheritance. VB6's approach to error handling is covered in On Error GoTo Hell (PDF) (http://www.charteris.com/Publications/WhitePapers/Downloads/OnErrorGoto.pdf). That's right: you use the GoTo keyword to catch errors. Must I continue?

xequence
August 13th, 2005, 02:37 AM
I didnt quite understand that, but im guessing its as bad as everything else microsoft does?

DJ_Max
August 13th, 2005, 04:32 AM
I've never looked at VB, since I don't use Windows, but I've heard nothing but bad things about it, mainly from regular Window users.

I also, try to avoid debugging code, and stay away from C. I will only use it when it's the only logical choice.

tread
August 13th, 2005, 04:35 AM
It's crippled by a half-assed implementation of object-oriented principles.

VB6 is object oriented? :razz:

Stormy Eyes
August 13th, 2005, 05:00 AM
VB6 is object oriented? :razz:

Microsoft said it was. They lied, the bastards.