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Indeed, it can be abused as a sort of primitive step-by-step debugging tool.

• zackbloom 14y ago
  I remember the days before the "Don't allow this site to show more alerts" checkbox when, if you accidentally left an alert in a loop, your only option was Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
  • ysangkok 14y ago
    Weird how you had JavaScript support but no process killing. I imagine you must have used DOS. What browser? Arachne didn't have JavaScript support...
    • kibibu 14y ago
      Ctrl-Alt-Del is one of the ways to access the task manager in Windows, with which you can kill a process.
• tlrobinson 14y ago
  You could even instrument your code to implement a full debugger using "prompt". In fact, I did: https://github.com/tlrobinson/xebug https://github.com/tlrobinson/xebug