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

Print statements tend to produce output that you can look at and reason about for quite some time, whereas when using a debugger you are forced to memorize the past, know exactly what is going on at present, and exactly what should happen in the future.

For example, you have an algorithm that changes a variable 100 times. On the 85th time, it got changed to a value that should never have been assigned to it in that case. With a debugger, you are forced to step through that 85 times. Conditional breakpoints may alleviate some of this.