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: ''For other expansions of "DDT", see [[DDT (disambiguation)]].''

'''Dynamic Debugging Technique''', or '''DDT''', was the name of several [[debugger]] programs originally developed for [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] hardware, initially known as '''DEC Debugging Tape''' because, asit awas pundistributed on a[[paper welltape]]. known insecticideThe ofname theis time,a itpun wason distributedthe oninsecticide (i.e. bug-killer) [[paper tapeDDT]].

The first version of DDT was developed at [[MIT]] for the [[PDP-1]] computer in 1961, but newer versions on newer platforms continued to use the same name. After being ported to other vendor's platforms and changing media, the name was changed to the less DEC-centric version.

DDT is closely related to [[Octal Debugging Technique|ODT]]. Both names were used for several different debuggers, but generally debuggers with the ODT name had more limited capabilities than DDT debuggers.