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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by blauditore on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:19PM (#26928660)
> I used a debugger only a couple of times and in most cases it was against someone else's code

The vast majority of code I investigate is "someone else's" code. Most of the cases, it's a historical accumulation by multiple authors. If you generally only work in your own code, that's quite a different experience, and debugging is generally easier (because you were there when it was written).

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging by wodny on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:57AM (#26931820)
That is not the point I was trying to make here. I was talking about extreme cases of faulty code which luckily are not that common. I meant that as long as you couple with sane libraries and adhere to standards in your own team extreme measures such as a debugger are not necessary.
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