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[Sean Kelly]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
> Now, D is IMHO an excellent First Language. And some people really seem 
> to find debuggers useful. Personally I never use them, because I find 
> myself distracted and concentrating on the debugger instead of thinking 
> of the problem.
> 
> With D, let folks have debuggers if they want. But to become a real 
> programmer, one should learn to bike without the baby wheels.

Debuggers become quite useful in team environments where you didn't 
necessarily write a lot of the code in the program.  Particularly if 
it's an old program where DBC and similar approaches simply aren't 
feasible because the app was designed with the expectation that invalid 
parameters should be swallowed.  Sure I could still work out in my head 
how the thing is working, but if the system is alreadying held together 
by spit and bubblegum it may take quite a while to accomplish.  I think 
Linus' comments are valid for some portion of the software community, 
but not necessarily all of it.


Sean