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Originally Posted by Lazy
Ok, but what if you have all of your null pointer checks, ect in place but it mysteriously crashes every now and then?
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That's when you dust off the old debugger you have not needed for at least a month and find out what has gone wrong.
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I can see your point but it's hard to not see myself using it.
Or, maybe its time I read my debugging c++ book. It might talk about what you've been saying...
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A debugger can be a handy tool to have available when needed, I'm not totally mad ... at least I don't think I am
Debuggers are such a handy crutch it can be difficult to imagine life without one. If you can go without a debugger for long enough, you will eventually reach the opposite point of view where you can't imagine using a debugger frequently, except in certain types of difficult situations.
It has been my observation that people who make frequent use of a debugger tend to have a frequent occurance of bugs and produce difficult to understand code. The debugger provides the quick fix to these problems, which sustains a level of programming methods that would otherwise be intolerable. If a debugger were no longer available, some of these programming methods would become intolerable, and adjustments would have to be made to compensate, leading to better quality code.