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I can appreciate the teaspoon/shovel metaphor, which I've gotten a lot of mileage from myself—not necessarily always related to programming—but "a bug in a if statement that would've been obvious at a first glance with a debugger" does not reflect how debuggers actually work.

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Someone who actually likes debuggers but doesn't see you making a solid case for them at all.

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I suspect GP was referring to a situation where you’re stepping though some problem code and see that you end up in the wrong clause or an IF statement?

Agree that’s not the first use case I’d think of, but I do think debuggers can quickly pinpoint that kind of thing as you step through code… if you know roughly where the problem is.

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