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Re:The Debugging Mindset by nostrademons on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:37AM (#14021381)
I've used both, and still do use both in concert with each other.

The debugger is a tool for gaining that intuition about how the program operates, and carefully-placed log statements are a tool for cutting the search space of where you need to place breakpoints and single-step.

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Re:The Debugging Mindset by arethuza on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:49AM (#14021646)
"carefully-placed log statements are a tool for cutting the search space!

Indeed, inevitably serious problems tend to be where there is no or poor logging :-)

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