[sliverstorm]

A developer who can match his peers without using a debugger while they do, is clearly a superior developer. This should be intuitively obvious.

It's just the catalyzing power of the internet that drives people to the extreme of insisting one should never, ever use a debugger. Or a plane.

[glenjamin]

If said developer can match his peers without using a debugger, then he'd do even better with a debugger. A tool is just that, it can only assist you in performing a task.