An IDE debugger lets you change the
values of variables at run-time.
An IDE
debugger lets you see the value of
variables you didn't know you wanted
to see when execution began.
An IDE
debugger lets you see the call stack
and examine the state of the
function passed weird values.
(think this function is called from
hundreds of places, you don't know
where these weird values are coming
from)
An IDE debugger lets you
conditionally break execution at any
point in code, based on a condition,
not a line number.
An IDE debugger will let you examine the state of the program in the case of an unhandled exception instead of just crapping out.
