Preface
If you're a programmer, you've probably spent a fair bit of time looking through source code trying to find a bug. You know the routine: You've narrowed the bug down to a small code section, you know it's lurking there somewhere, but you can't see where it is. You are confident that, eventually, you will have the satisfaction of finding and fixing the bug, but for the moment all you feel is frustration.
So why, you might ask, would you voluntarily read a book that requires you to do exactly that . . . repeatedly?
The answer is that finding bugs by looking through source code is really, in the end, the only way to fix bugs. You can run your tests, gather your data, wade through a debugger session, print all the verbose text you want, but ...
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