Re: RAD Studio Roadmap Updated

Anyway, I find that often, a few well placed Showmessages or Writelns
(or DebugOutputStrings) are much easier to find the spot of an error
than repeatedly running the program in the debugger, jumping from
routine to routine. If I know where to find the error, I can usually
find the error pretty soon as well.

Style of debugging depends on nature of the code.
Yes I do use ShowMessage and writeln's as well.
Even MessageBeep does sometimes. But I would
never pay for a modern development tool
that does not have good real debugger.
It is the same as giving users VI and
telling them that it is the best all around
text editor

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