I wonder if that's an age thing, I'm 36, I've been programming since I was 7 and seriously since I was 14 (I say seriously since that's when I started doing stu

I wonder if that's an age thing, I'm 36, I've been programming since I was 7 and seriously since I was 14 (I say seriously since that's when I started doing stuff people would pay for) and I rarely use a debugger. These days I mostly program in PHP (it's where the money is locally and I actually don't mind the language, it's come along well) and use the excellent FirePHP (it allows you to put fp_log($foo) (fp_log is a wrapper around it I wrote for terseness - it also checks local context so that I don't leak debug stuff out into the wild accidentally) and $foo is then passed to the browser via headers (you need a browser extension to make it work but it integrates into the console) that does for 99% of the debugging I need to do, the 1% is when I fire up XDebug, I like XDebug but I've found over the years that printf debugging solves the vast amount of problems since they nearly always trace back to a faulty assuming about what $foo contains at a given point and it's (at least in interpreted languages) way quicker to just whap a print(foo) etc in there and see.