[AliAdams]

> I consider vision to be a drug -- an addiction. People can get into the horrible habbit of depending on their vision instead of on their brain. IMHO looking at things is a tool of last resort. Once you have exhausted every other avenue of diagnosis, and have given very careful thought to just trying to do the action again, then you may need to open your eyes.

Coding without a debugger is like walking with your eyes closed or driving at night with no headlights. Sure, it may be possible, but you are purposefully limiting your information in order to not become "dependant" on something.

Tooling will always be a compromise of utility vs reliance but there is a reason we don't, for example, build cars by hand any more.

[ubersoldat2k7]

Exactly, we're engineers and craftsmans, all which rely on their tools. If you don't use the tools at your disposal, you're not a good professional.

[mrdodge]

My experience is the EDI and debugger depedent programmers have a very hard time when those things are taken away or unavailable. The reverse is not true.

[JustSomeNobody]

If you don’t use your brain first you’re not a good professional. Any other tool isn’t as important.