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Comment by jeffwass

1 day ago

“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.”

- Brian Kernighan

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frou_dh  1 day ago

That's the holy Unix justification for self-flagellation via deficient tooling and you're sticking to it.

db48x  1 day ago

Although that was true at the time, it was before the creation of modern omniscient debuggers like Pernosco (<https://pernos.co/>).

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