# What is your opinion on the use of debugger

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**Created:** [September 16, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-the-use-of-debugger/314029 "2010-09-16T12:54:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-the-use-of-debugger/314029/1 "2010-09-16T12:54:35Z")

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What is your opinion on the use of debugger? Do you think that debuggers are for poor programmers? I think its very helpful for understanding how other people’s code work, the logic flow etc. Without a debugger, how can you figure out the logic flow etc if the function names aren’t that helpful? I’m talking about huge huge project with modules (enterprise RIA). Not a simple web site.  
Often I have heard that ‘real men don’t need IDE’. Ok, that can be agreed. Doesn’t a real programmer need debugger?