Formal Debugging, Why Do You Think It Doesn't Exist?
First of all, I feel that the debate between ASP and PHP is irrelevent, I think they are different enough that there is no comparrison or need for comparrison. However, what the article did bring up about debugging made me wonder why PHP doesn't have any. Why do you think the Zend Engine doesn't spit back more information for debugging?
I have never really found a need for more debugging options in PHP, good old "echo" and trial and error work for me, but I can imagine that it would be nice for those who are new to the language etc... Besides, would it take that much more time to include some kind of decent debugging? Just wanted to see what the community had to say about it.
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