Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Sergei Nosov via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 11:54:42 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:47:27 +0000
> Sergei Nosov via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> In the "debugger" case, Manu's point is that it's unusable. 
>> And Walter's implied point is "debuggers aren't that useful 
>> anyway, so why it was a showstopper?".
>> 
>> My personal observation is that "excellent programmers" share 
>> the Walter's point on debuggers - they practically don't use 
>> it. And the uselessness is so obvious, that there's nothing 
>> even to talk about. At the same time, "good programmers" use 
>> it extensively, especially on Windows. It is so useful to 
>> them, that there's nothing even to talk about!
>
> one of the things one can do if he is in corresponding position 
> is to
> ban debuggers. i found that after month or two people start 
> producing
> better code with better documentation and "control knobs". and
> surprisingly faster. debugger is just a kind of bad habit, and 
> when
> people faced the fact that they will not be payed for work 
> simulation
> (and why should we?), they either go or becomes more productive.

Exactly. But you also imply something like "it would be great if 
every good programmer became excellent", which is not very 
realistic.

The example is a little abstract, but smoking is also a bad 
habit. However, there's no way you can fight it and win for the 
observable future.