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This is diverging a bit, but weaning yourself off of the debugger habit can be incredibly liberating. I used to be a debugger junkie, but I've changed to a system of carefully reading code and understanding what it does (and often writing unit tests to confirm that each pieces is doing what I think it's doing). Every time I have to go into a debugger now, I curse the person who left me with no other choice (say, due to design choices or laziness). Sometimes... the person I curse is me :)


I wholeheartedly agree. TDD as Test-Driven Debugging is the way to go. :)




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