Subj : Re: Not debugging?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : CBFalconer
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 11:49 pm

Hartmann Schaffer wrote:
> 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

I can't really remember when I last used a debugger.  Judicious
printf statements, or the equivalent, have handled everything for
me for years.

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