Hmm, this headline is bought to you from the "too cool for school" crowd. The citations in the article are a little flawed to support the argument. Torvalds "d

Hmm, this headline is bought to you from the "too cool for school" crowd. The citations in the article are a little flawed to support the argument. Torvalds "doesn't use a debugger", except the actual quote contains "I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will. I use gdb all the time" Guido van Rossan "uses print statements for 90% of his debugging". Sounds like people who /are/ using debuggers to me. In fact, using one for the remaining 10% of the bugs sounds about right. I'd be highly sceptical of any programmer who has not picked up a debugger in the last year, and using it to step through some code is just one of it's many features. But this article could easily be headlined "people don't use debuggers all of the time" and it wouldn't be nearly as interesting.