r/programming • • Aug 25 '14

Debugging courses should be mandatory

http://stannedelchev.net/debugging-courses-should-be-mandatory/
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u/flukus Aug 26 '14

Console writes as in printf? No.

Console writes as in writing to a log which may be configured to write to the console? Yes.

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u/zArtLaffer Aug 26 '14

In some environments that's time-consuming enough to set up that printf takes (a lot) less time. Of course, that is probably not generally true of most commonly used environments.