The is what Kernighan & Pike say in their excellent book "The Practice of Programming." (And I agree..)
As they say, "...we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is easy to get lost in the details of complicated data structures and control flow;.... It is more helpful to use the debugger to discover the state of the program when it fails, then think about how the failure could have happened...."
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As they say, "...we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is easy to get lost in the details of complicated data structures and control flow; .... It is more helpful to use the debugger to discover the state of the program when it fails, then think about how the failure could have happened. ..."
Just my 0.02...
R.