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by bartimus 2609 days ago
On a similar note: I once did a project entirely in notepad. This really forces you to write clean, readable, well organized code.

I don't have anything against debuggers. I do - however - have a concern with people who rely heavily on the find feature in their IDE to search for certain code they need to change. Oftentimes they don't look at the bigger picture and miss how certain things might better be implemented elsewhere. They don't run into the problem of finding code that's poorly structured. They don't have a need to restructure it.