David Pacheco
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Many modern dynamic languages lack tools for understanding complex failures.
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- Postmortem debugging in dynamic environments
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Postmortem Debugging in Dynamic Environments: Modern dynamic languages lack tools for understanding software failures.
Programming LanguagesDespite the best efforts of software engineers to produce high-quality software, inevitably some bugs escape even the most rigorous testing process and are first encountered by end users. When this happens, such failures must be understood quickly, the ...
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