[Ecls-list] Gray streams

Erik Huelsmann ehuels at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 10:20:45 UTC 2008


On 3/19/08, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> >  Out of interest, how do you use ECL?
>
> I develop noninteractively in emacs. I write my programs and they
> normally just run :-) I use it mostly for prototyping mathematical and
> programming algorithms I need at work, simple scripting and cron jobs,
> and CGI scripting in one very simple case.
>
> Development of ECL itself is also done without slime/ilisp/etc. And it
> has to be so, because most of the time I am working with an incomplete
> image or a broken executable that I have to run inside GDB.

You are aware there's a debugging mode in Emacs which interacts with
gdb? I must say I didn't use it for a long time, expecting very little
of it, but when I started using it, I found that having the 'execution
pointer' in C sources really adds clarity.

Bye,

Erik.




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