I've used Perl for about 13 years and I've never needed the debugger. I've always solved problems through some combination of print statements and reasoning. I've used C for nigh on 20 years now and I've had similar experience there as well. I've used gdb maybe 3 times in the last 15 years.
I tend to think that it's experience in tracking down mysterious pointer problems that has prevented me from using the debugger so much in C and the translation of that skill (or intuition) to perl that has made me never use the Perl debugger. It's also that I've mostly used Perl "at the surface" rather than delving deep into its innards.
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