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New & Revolutionary Debugging Techniques?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that people are still using print statements to debug programs (Brian Kernighan does!). Besides the ol' traditional debugger, do you know any new debugger that has a revolutionary way to help us inspect the data? (don't answer it with ddd, or any other debugger that got fancy data display), what I mean is a new revolutionary way. I have only found one answer. It seems that Relative Debugging is quite neat and cool."

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  1. Re:Relative debugging, an idea whose time has come by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Reboot them. Solves quite a lot of the problems. Male relatives can be rebooted with a well aimed kick in the nuts. (source: BOFH)
    I'm not sure if there is a way to reboot female relatives. Except perhaps pulling the plug and doing a cold reboot, but I'm not sure if that's legal.