CHAPTER 7So Just What'sHappening Here?
I believe programmers are no better than their knowledge of the debugging tools available for the programming language they're using. Why? Well first, all programmers make coding mistakes. I often remark that the day I code something that compiles and runs correctly the first time, I'm going to retire, because that would be the peak of my programming career. Second, programmers make logic mistakes. When is the last time you had to write some parsing code? That's one of the toughest types of programming to get right the first, second, third, or nth time around.
To find and solve our mistakes, we need a means to be able to discover exactly what is going on in our programs at that point in time when an error ...
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