What do you call using print statements to debug code?

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Published on 2010-03-09T07:08:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 7:21 UTC
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I'm just curious, but is there a name for the process using print statements to debug your code? An example in pseudocode

 x=3.2e39
 print x
 y = function1(x)
 print y
 z = function2(y)
 print z
 w = function3(z)
 print w

Executation:

 3.2e39
 3.2e36
 NaN
 NaN

reveals some bad math in function2. If there's no standard name, what do you call it?

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