Debugging on windows via print statements -- reliable?

[Peter Hansen]

Björn Lindberg wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
> > By the way, how can Python code get "stuck"?  Is it a logic flaw,
> > or are you talking about the kind of "stuck" that used to happen,
> > in the "old days", when we were always writing code in languages
> > which would actually crash the computer?
> 
> Which language has ever been known to crash the computer? Perhaps you
> are referring to earlier MS operating systems, which were known to crash
> themselves?

I should perhaps have said "writing code in languages which allowed
us to crash the computer".  As in, pointers!  C, to be even briefer. ;-)

-Peter