Oh yes...don't get me wrong, there will always be room for crash-and-burn debugging (my pet name for that style), and no doubt interpreted languages make it a much faster and safer method than doing the same thing in C back in the day.

Of course memory corruption was always a nasty potential culprit in C, and once again, using a step-debugger help with those issues immensely for a variety of obvious reasons as you could very quickly often see the exact line the program blew up.

BK's explicit endorsement of C&B debugging was bound to show up sooner or later, and we didn't even really touch on the difficulty of using a stepper in multi-threaded network apps, but remember I simply posited that stepping through code in real-time helped me quickly learn from devs much smarter and more experienced than I.