I have been troubleshooting this script for weeks and finally found it was trying to divide by zero.

    • lens_r@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      IMO there’s a place for both. A print statement will reveal a flaw in the programmer’s thinking regarding the control flow of the program and the state at that time. If a print statement gives something unexpected, you know exactly where to look in the debugger. If it gives you what you expected, it reveals the problem may be elsewhere

    • Fabiozeh@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Well, Kernighan himself said “The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.”

      If it was good enough for him…

  • raubarno@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    Panicking on the error is much better than letting the system work continue on an undefined behaviour (good luck with debugging if you are ignoring all assertions)!