Divisions of labor

[Jeremy Jones]

Cameron Laird wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:25:45PM -0400, Jeremy Jones wrote:
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very little of importance :-)
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>My newsfeed appears erratic; delays in my replies are not editorial comments.
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>Mr. Jones, I'm unoffended.  I once *was* a debugger guru (expert in several
>debuggers, in fact); those are skills I've chosen to let lapse.  Nowadays, I
>feel more benefit in thinking about, for example, monads and categories.
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>I don't know what else to say.  I am ever on the lookout for advantages a
>clever debugger will give me.  It's simply been years since I've noticed any.
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This helps me, actually.  Hearing this from someone like yourself whose 
posts I've come to respect, I'll keep this in mind as I dig deeper into 
pdb/whatever-debugger-I-turn-to.  Maybe I'll settle for "good enough to 
solve my tiny problems" rather than "guru".  Of course, there are a 
couple of benefits to becoming a debugger guru that are either not 
quantifiable or you can't claim "productive payback" as a justification for:

    * pure (geek) entertainment value.
    * geek respect from your co-workers

:-)

Jeremy
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