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

Our software runs on Linux/Solaris/HPUX/AIX/FreeBSD/MacOS, and it seems very hard to get debuggers for some of those platforms, and much easier to just add some extra tracing code.