[josm-dev] r4188 - removal of debug code

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Paul Hartmann wrote:

>> P.S. I'm even one of the few people not using IDE's at all, as I learned
>> programming before graphical-all-in-one-interfaces became available.
>> Which on the other hand means I still can work from 80x25 ASCII remote
>> terminals without any problems.
>
> Now I know, why you don't do unit testing: It's a pain without an IDE.
> :) Anyway, you should give IDEs a try, e.g. interactive debugging can be
> quite useful.

Sometimes, very seldom to me. For C/C++ I'm usually much faster with plain 
commandline gdb than my co-workers with their IDE's. Also I tend to use 
printf-debugging (in Java System.out.println()) instead of debuggers. It's 
always amazing to see reaction of people doing hours of hours debugging 
without finding a bug and after I add some printf's I can tell them: Your 
bug is here, not where you searched.

It is not that I think IDE's are evil. I simply don't like them much. 
And I usually do a lot of additional build steps to ease common tasks 
which is most time hard to achive with IDE's, but really easy with 
hand-made makefiles.

On the other hand all this may be wrong and I simply use what I learned as 
a child (I teached myself programming with 12, approx. 2 years after I 
got my first computer). As I learned programming completely myself I've 
probably fallen into every possible programming mistake already and thus 
got much experience. :-)

Ciao
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