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Re: Parody O'Reilly book covers

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Needs "Essential Debugging with print statements"

There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements".

If anything, if you're any good at it, it shows better knowledge of your program's behavior than blindly looking around in the stack on a debugger.

In fact some of the biggest name programmers use just that -- including the very people who created .

At best it's "hardcore" -- but not "bad" or anything like what's in the list. Here's some appeal to coding authority for ya:

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." Brian Kernigham

"I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will." — Linus Torvalds

Re: Parody O'Reilly book covers

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post #11
post #2

Needs "Essential Debugging with print statements"

There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements". If anything, if you're any good at it, it shows better knowledge of your program's behavior than blindly looking around in the stack on a debugger. In fact some of the biggest name programmers use just that -- including the very people who created . At best it's "hardcore" -- but not "bad" or anything like what's in the list. Here's some appeal to coding…

> There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements".

Nor is there anything wrong with searching for the text of an error message, but both are funny to see as a fake book cover.

Re: Parody O'Reilly book covers

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements". If anything, if you're any good at it, it shows better knowledge of your program's behavior than blindly looking around in the stack on a debugger. In fact some of the biggest name programmers use just that -- including the very people who created . At best it's "hardcore" -- but not "bad" or anything like what's in the list. Here's some appeal to coding…

> There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements". Nor is there anything wrong with searching for the text of an error message, but both are funny to see as a fake book cover.

It's such a simple tool that it feels wrong the first time you do it.

Re: Parody O'Reilly book covers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements". Nor is there anything wrong with searching for the text of an error message, but both are funny to see as a fake book cover.

It's such a simple tool that it feels wrong the first time you do it.

Yet it's also the only thing that actually works in a tough debugging situation.
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