Brian W. Kernighan y Rob Pike sobre depuración

Leído en Apache, a de propósito Log4j,   en la introducción:
[Tomado de Brian W. Kernighan y Rob Pike de su libro "The Practice of Programming"]

As personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is easy to get lost in details of complicated data structures and control flow; we find stepping through a program less productive than thinking harder and adding output statements and self-checking code at critical places. Clicking over statements takes longer than scanning the output of judiciously-placed displays. It takes less time to decide where to put print statements than to single-step to the critical section of code, even assuming we know where that is. More important, debugging statements stay with the program; debugging sessions are transient.