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debugger

  • a word derived from debug.

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He was a good debugger; the key to finding bugs was getting to the bottom of things.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

For those inclined to credit Babbage, rather than Lovelace, with the computer program in Section G, Lovelace is still indisputably the world’s first debugger.

From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2011

“If you look at the code in a debugger you see patterns that jump out at you,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2010

With the use of the debugger, which took up one third of the 4,096 words of the TX-O's memory, hackers were free to create a new, more daring style of programming.

From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven

Node:rotary debugger, Next:round tape, Previous:rot13, Up:= R = rotary debugger n.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.