Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:07:39 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 |
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> From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> > Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:10:00 +0200
>[...] > Let's try a different show of hands: How many users would be happier if > they knew that kernel developers are using modern techniques to improve > the quality of the kernel?
I do not see how using a debugger improves a quality of the kernel. Good thinking and coding does improve kernel quality. Debugger certainly does not help if someone cannot code.
A debugger can do some good things. Some people argue that it improves productivity, which I think may be true under some circomstances. If your build system sucks and/or slow, and if you work with a binary only software, debugger helps. If you work with something like Linux, and compile on something better than a 333MHz x86, it probably does not help your productivity. This is all wonderful, but has nothing to do with the code quality.
And to think that your users would be happier with a crap produced by a debugger touting Windows graduate than with a quality code debugged with observation simply defies any reason.
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