Thank You, GDB!

“I program in C very reluctantly. I don’t hate the language, but
it occupies a curious niche between assembly language (where you
can do absolutely anything, if you’re willing to write it yourself,
and eval is trivial) and a true high level language (where you can
do absolutely anything, you don’t have to write it yourself, and
eval is available for everything else). Yet it’s ubiquitous, it has
a lot of libraries, and it’s probably the best way to write
reasonably efficient code that has to run on plenty of
platforms.

“Because I’m writing a lot more C code lately (and of that,
finding and fixing a lot of bugs), I’ve spent a lot of time using
the GNU debugger GDB…”

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