Debugging in Plain English?

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:50AM from the usually-a-missing-semicolon dept.

sameerdesai writes "CNN is carrying a story about Researchers from Carnegie Melon: Myers and a graduate student, Andrew Ko, have developed a debugging program that lets users ask questions about computer errors in plain English: Why didn't a program behave as expected? I guess with recent exploits and bugs that were found this will soon be a hot research topic or tool in the market." We recently did a story about revolutionary debugging techniques; the researchers' website has some papers and other information.

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Exploits by Al+Dimond · 2004-07-27 08:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why did Pac-Man get 0wn3d?
great post by pizza_milkshake · 2004-07-27 09:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

great post! if i had mod points you'd get them.
Re:Yo Debugger! by TedCheshireAcad · 2004-07-27 10:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

hahaha oh my god, moderators, please....where are you?
PC load letter by javaaddikt · 2004-07-27 15:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?