[Tutor] What is a "symbolic debugger"

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Sat Aug 18 08:11:18 CEST 2007


In the "Python Book Recommendations [Was:[Re: Security]]" thread, 
Chris Calloway included a link to the American Scientist article, 
"Where's the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?". In that 
article I saw a term, "symbolic debugger", I  had been wondering 
about for a while. Google was of little help (to me, at least), and 
searching Wikipedia on "symbolic debugger" gets me the Debugger 
article "Redirected from Symbolic debugger". I'm beginning to think 
that the debugger I want to learn, WinPdb, is also a symbolic 
debugger, but what's "symbolic" about it?

Thanks,

Dick Moores




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