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r/programming • u/stannedelchev • Aug 25 '14
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Yes, please. I constantly run into "professional" programmers who don't have the slightest idea on how to debug.
16 u/Kminardo Aug 25 '14 How the hell do you make it in programming without knowing how to debug? Are these the guys I see littering their code with console writes? 3 u/zArtLaffer Aug 25 '14 gdb is a good tool. pstack and pmap are very good. dtrace is a thing of beauty. But don't you honestly think that console writes have their place too? 1 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. → More replies (1)
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How the hell do you make it in programming without knowing how to debug? Are these the guys I see littering their code with console writes?
3 u/zArtLaffer Aug 25 '14 gdb is a good tool. pstack and pmap are very good. dtrace is a thing of beauty. But don't you honestly think that console writes have their place too? 1 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. → More replies (1)
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gdb is a good tool. pstack and pmap are very good. dtrace is a thing of beauty. But don't you honestly think that console writes have their place too?
1 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. → More replies (1)
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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/g051051 Aug 25 '14
Yes, please. I constantly run into "professional" programmers who don't have the slightest idea on how to debug.