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| author | Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> | 1997-07-29 16:23:43 +1200 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-08-07 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | 26f28346883474bb3e28ea6c2c3205eb54147457 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f1abf64d1a9355928df61c2294fbecf785414fe /pod/perldebug.pod | |
| parent | 95b76e31e0b4c4fa94c15c8c06055a7dba0b7f75 (diff) | |
| download | perl-26f28346883474bb3e28ea6c2c3205eb54147457.tar.gz | |
cool quote for perldebug
A by-product of #perl discussion [sic]. Take it or leave it.
p5p-msgid: 199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com
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diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index 1b206fb96d..7d8d84f3ed 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ First of all, have you tried using the B<-w> switch? =head1 The Perl Debugger +"As soon as we started programming, we found to our +surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right +as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. +I can remember the exact instant when I realized that +a large part of my life from then on was going to be +spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." +--Maurice Wilkes, 1949 + If you invoke Perl with the B<-d> switch, your script runs under the Perl source debugger. This works like an interactive Perl environment, prompting for debugger commands that let you examine |