lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) (07/12/89)
I'm developing an application using AWK. The programs involved
are getting to be fairly substantial (several hundred lines, up to
6 or 7 files being read and written to), and I was wondering if
anyone has ever seen, heard of, written, or used an AWK debugger.
I am using both gawk 2.10 and the original AWK (1977).
What does a debugger look like for an interpreted language? Is it
possible to add one on to an existing interpreter, or am I going to
have to hack at gawk in order to get what I want?
I know, a lot of you are going to say ``Why are you using AWK?''
Because it's a convenient development language, and in this case
I can make good use of the pattern matching. If I need a faster
application when I finish, I will recode it in C.
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