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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by jacques_chester on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:31PM (#26928394)
> But with print statements if the first place I put them doesn't work, I can start doing bisects and quickly find the right place to print.

Can't I also bisect with breakpoints?

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by cratermoon on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:00PM (#26928532)
You can, but the comment was talking specifically about stepping through the code line-by-line.
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