Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
by momocowcow on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:11AM
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This statement explain his position very clearly. Anyone who did any serious DOS programming understands it well.
"A debugger is how you get a view into a system that's too complicated to understand. I mean, anybody that thinks just read the code and think about it, that's an insane statement, you can't even read all the code on a big system. You have to do experiments on the system. And doing that by adding log statements, recompiling and rerunning it, is an incredibly inefficient way of doing it. I mean, yes, you can always get things done, even if you're working with stone knives and bare skins."
"A debugger is how you get a view into a system that's too complicated to understand. I mean, anybody that thinks just read the code and think about it, that's an insane statement, you can't even read all the code on a big system. You have to do experiments on the system. And doing that by adding log statements, recompiling and rerunning it, is an incredibly inefficient way of doing it. I mean, yes, you can always get things done, even if you're working with stone knives and bare skins."