I totally agree. I also use print message sometimes for the case you mention. Or for example when doing audio applications, to monitor the rate of buffers being

I totally agree. I also use print message sometimes for the case you mention. Or for example when doing audio applications, to monitor the rate of buffers being filled under different loads. Generally high rate stuff, happening later in time. The difference I believe is that in both cases the problems are circumscript. It's not random "hello1", "hello2" messages to understand the program flow, guessing where the problem could be. That's what I called desperate. But it's true I don't know which language we are talking about.