[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[bill]

On 3/1/2023 8:31 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-03-01 02:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/28/2023 6:39 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gus baird always said "You don't need a debugger.  What you need is 
>>>> to stop
>>>> putting bugs in your programs."
>>>
>>> Which is great if it is you putting the bugs in and not the compiler.
>>
>> True.  But unfortunately if the compiler is putting the bugs in, the 
>> debugger
>> is probably not of much use anyway.
> 
> Depends. I've found one case of a gcc bug where a debugger showed the 
> problem just fine.
> 
> However, the statement can be applied recursively to the compiler as 
> well. Stop putting bugs in the compiler.

Or backdoors.    :-)


bill