In his defence, he didn't say he'll make you think gdb is the greatest, just change your perspective of it. A broken ncurses text gui debugger is miles better t

In his defence, he didn't say he'll make you think gdb is the greatest, just change your perspective of it. A broken ncurses text gui debugger is miles better than viewing your code via basically ed commands. If all you have is gdb, then knowing how to use it more productively is certainly welcome. That's the situation with e.g. embedded development or debugging the kernel via a serial interface. It's still kind of crappy, but at least it's not ed.