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The both have their place. Print debugging is ineffective for complex problems. The full power of debuggers is overkill for simple problems. Neither option is more powerful than slowing down, observing the problem, and just thinking about it. When you throw rubber duck debugging into the mix, all three tend to be fairly evenly distributed in terms of how often they solve the problem, in my experience.


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