How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs (2002)

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36 points | by swatson741 2 days ago

2 comments

  • widdershins 1 hour ago
    > The inspector is menu driven, and you can always see the available options by typing "?." For the most part, the options are self-explanatory.

    I've enjoyed using Chez Scheme a lot, but I never could get my head around its built-in debugger. I never remember where to go to just view a stack trace, and if I do find it, I end up confused when I try to navigate around it.

    I suspect all the information I could possibly want is in there, but I don't find the interface at all intuitive.

  • HexDecOctBin 32 minutes ago
    Lisp tooling is the weirdest of all. On one hand, it allows full introspection and reflection on all internal state. On the other hand, it is almost as clunky as GDB command line. Why is there no visual debugger?

    Sometimes I think Emacs was the worst thing to happen to Lisp. It put the language in a "Worse-is-better" box and left it there.