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On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:09 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On 6 August 2018 at 08:52, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled
>> with judiciously placed print statements.
>>
>> Brian Kernighan
>>
>> "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
>>
>> I think that Roberto said something very similar on this list, on a
>> thread dealing with Lua debugging tools, but can't find it.
>
> I remember on a round table, somebody from the audience asked him what
> was his favorite debugger, the answer was ".... well.... print?"
>

My boss was baffled why I didn't use a Javascript debugger instead of
log statements.

The way I see it... if it's not broke...?

/s/ Adam