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Towards a purely functional debugger for functional programs

Simon Booth, Simon B. Jones

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A major drawback when developing large applications with functional programming languages is the lack of good debugging tools--when using imperative languages all sorts of useful information about the program's behaviour is available via a good debugger. In this paper we present a debugging technique that allows the examination of the behaviour of programmer defined functions in the context of the whole program. In particular, we present a technique that allows examination the function input and the result of the application of the function to that input.

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A major drawback when developing large applications with functional programming languages is the lack of good debugging tools--when using imperative languages all sorts of useful information about the program's behaviour is available via a good debugger. In this paper we present a debugging technique that allows the examination of the behaviour of programmer defined functions in the context of the whole program. In particular, we present a technique that allows examination the function input and the result of the application of the function to that input.

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A major drawback when developing large applications with functional programming languages is the lack of good debugging tools--when using imperative languages all sorts of useful information about the program's behaviour is available via a good debugger. In this paper we present a debugging technique that allows the examination of the behaviour of programmer defined functions in the context of the whole program. In particular, we present a technique that allows examination the function input and the result of the application of the function to that input.

Key concepts: Debugger, Debugging, Computer science, Programming language, Programmer, Algorithmic program debugging, Functional programming, Context (archaeology)

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