ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (07/10/86)
With the recent interest in languages which support multiple
paradigms ( see, for example, the january issue of IEEE Software),
the need for a symbolic debugger to support systems written in such
languages becomes clear. Such a debugger would need capabilities to
be able to show any data item in any of the paradigms and to allow the user
to breakpoint or resume execution in any of the paradigms. Difficulties in
resuming execution at a different point in the execution stack when
some of the code involves a paradigm with backtracking or dat-triggered
execution seem formidable. Is anyone working on a symbolic debugger
for a multiple paradigm language? We are considering such work and would
like to correspond with anyone interested.
Another need is for a multiple paradigm editor which provided a graphical
view of the program in whichever paradigm was desired or whichever the
code actually involved. If that editor could be language-based, that would
be even better. Is anyone working on such an editor? Could something
such as emacs be configured to support this? How?