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

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just ship it with debug flags so your program always generates a stack trace to the user!

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Makes me think of devs who debug with print statements instead of a debugger and breakpoints.

[-] Fabiozeh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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...

this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
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