Linus echoing your father's thoughts in 2006: I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different l

Linus echoing your father's thoughts in 2006: I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different level than with a debugger. I think that without a debugger, you don't get into that mindset where you know how it behaves, and then you fix it from there. Without a debugger, you tend to think about problems another way. You want to understand things on a different _level_. Full email at https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65 https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65