Bug hunting (was Re: Python in game development?)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <397D1F01.214C4F52 at my.signature>,
Greg Ewing  <see at my.signature> wrote:
>
>The ability to watch your program execute is an extremely powerful way
>to track down the causes of bugs. You know what the program is supposed
>to do; the program is actually doing something different. If you can
>watch the program execute step by step, it becomes instantly obvious
>where they diverge. Usually it's also instantly obvious what has to be
>done to fix it, since often it's just some simple oversight.

That's assuming that it's not a race condition in a multi-process
system, of course.  :-(

(We had a really narsty problem with MS SQL Server a few months back.)
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