Purposefully debugging without using a debugger?

Question

In chapter 5 of \"The Practice of Programming\" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike write:

As a personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a st

Answer 1

For the average little silly bug, it's faster for me to read the code over 2 or 3 times, debugging in my mind than to fire up the debugger and get the program into the required state.