Subj : Re: Not debugging?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Hartmann Schaffer
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 05:54 pm

Tim X wrote:
> ...
> I'm guessing he was referring to the irritating development of
> programmers who are not able to debug code without a high level IDE
> which includes a debugger which allows them to step/trace through the
> code one line at a time and watch what happens to variables in a watch
> window. 
> 
> IMO this is a really bad trend because it means programmers stop
> thinking about their code and how it actually works. this sort of
> 'debugging' tends to be extremely slow - especially for trivial type
> bugs which would noramlly be spotted very quickly by someone wh
> understands what their code is doing and how it works. 

working with an IDE debugger beats analysing a binary (i.e. hex or 
octal) core dump

> ...

hs

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