My experience is this is only if it's your own code and you have a full mental model of the state of the program. I worked on a lisp project and the lead would

My experience is this is only if it's your own code and you have a full mental model of the state of the program. I worked on a lisp project and the lead would see a crash, type some lisp, continue, app would run. The rest of the team not so much. Maybe we were all just bad lisp programmers.