Subj : Re: Not debugging?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Phlip
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 04:30 pm

Duane Bozarth wrote:

>> The define "legacy" as "requires debugging".
>
> That's a bizarre (at best) definition of "legacy"...

That's why Greg didn't understand why I used it like that.

Me: Strive to never debug.

Greg: What about blah blah blah.

Me: You are using something that you can't design
        fresh from scratch to resist bugs. So you must
        run the debugger more often than greenfield code

Greg: It's not "legacy" it's embedded blah blah blah

My point is you must frequently debug it, just as you must frequently debug 
user-level code that someone wrote without good unit tests. "Legacy" code.

> The "trivial" upgrading of the emulator is <definitely> an ideal state
> in most instances, too...

If you can't, then skip it. (That's also a rule when attempting to TDD 
legacy code.)

Just don't leave the emulator out of the loop. Greg implied using it would 
slow down the tail end of development.

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