Working with the Perl debugger
BUG DOCTOR
Some developers condemn the use of debuggers, but in many cases, a debugger is a programmer’s last hope. In this Month’s Perl Snapshot, we’ll look at Perl’s integrated debugger.
Linus Torvalds does not like debuggers. In Linus’s opinion, it is far too easy to throw a piece of code together and use a debugger to beat some sense into it. Alternatives to debugging do exist. For instance, the careful application of logging removes the need for debugging in many cases. As you can read at [3], Log::Log4perl helps you integrate an appropriate level of debugging into an application and to remotely control debugging activities.
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