Surely five minutes spent learning a debugger isn't really in the spirit of the rest of the post. It should be more like "read the entire man page of the debugg

Surely five minutes spent learning a debugger isn't really in the spirit of the rest of the post. It should be more like "read the entire man page of the debugger and try some of it out." Five minutes is only enough to learn how to shove the work-flow you already know into a new tool, not to learn the work flow that is actually suited to that tool.