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From: dont@tekig1.UUCP (Don Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: New UNIX Commands
Message-ID: <1809@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 15:18:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 15:18:44 1984
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     Existing debuggers suffer exactly the same limitations that ed(1) suffered,
a teletype(tm) mentality, (no offense to Teletype Corp, but the classic approach
is to use a crt to bang out a stream of characters, each soon gone, never to
return, and minimizing I/O is THE criteria).  The new debuggers will do what vi
did for ed, you guessed it, visual debugging, or

					vd(1)

     Unfortunately, I cannot claim credit for this one, I only wish I could.

Soon EVERYONE will want vd, but I want to be one of the first.  Ah, to SEE a
bug occur, instead of tapping around with a little white cane till you hit it.

Don Taylor
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