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Did you read the manual? http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-sch...

It's not as easy as setting breakpoints in an IDE like Eclipse and using a visual debugger there, but it's definitely a workable command-line debugger. You just need a little patience in order learn how to use it, and also probably have a pretty good understanding of Scheme's execution model, but that would be true for debugging any programming language.



> Did you read the manual?

For real?

> It's not as easy as setting breakpoints in an IDE

I don't use an IDE. I'm comparing against command line tools for scripting languages, Haskell and Common Lisp. Some fail more helpfully than others.


Sorry for my tone, I guess YMMV... I just never had any issue with MIT Scheme's debugger, although I admit that CL with SLIME is a bit more useful, especially compared to MIT's weird Emacs-clone (or -fork?) "Edwin".


For a slime like repl for scheme, you might want to check out geiser: http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

It works great for guile and racket.




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