I don't use the debugger to "debug" my code either: I come from the old school, where you just add print until it works. {grin} And since that's pretty painful, I usually just do incremental development, adding one little piece at a time, and running the code each time, so that I can tell where it broke when I broke something.

I do use the debugger frequently as an interactive Perl:

$ perl -deal
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because the ability to type x arbitrary expression is pretty cool for testing out snippets.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker