Exactly. If you live in a pure C world without external dependencies it makes sense to sit down and think it through. If you live in something like .NET or Java

Exactly. If you live in a pure C world without external dependencies it makes sense to sit down and think it through. If you live in something like .NET or Java where you do a lot of interfacing with libraries and APIs a debugger is very useful to just discover how these systems are behaving.