Writing to the console is good if you have a console, and don't need to stop the program and examine the state of memory, files, processes immediately before th

Writing to the console is good if you have a console, and don't need to stop the program and examine the state of memory, files, processes immediately before the problem occurs. Otherwise it's a big fail. Are we supposed to believe that some people can understand unix, c++ etc but cannot learn/keep a cheatsheet handy so they can employ the ~10 commands needed to use gdb fruitfully?