Purposefully debugging without using a debugger?

Question

In chapter 5 of \"The Practice of Programming\" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike write:

As a personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a st

Answer 1

Print statements that get dumped to a file can be operated on textually. grep, sort, sed, and awk can help for complex debugging issues. Also one could write a small program to parse the dumped text if necessary.