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Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all
40 2 ReplyI'm guessing it was more like "Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers"
11 0 ReplyAnd the book had all the answers.
5 0 ReplyThe book had half ass answers. Their examples rarely had anything to do with reality.
4 0 ReplySo not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this
class Animal: class Dog(Animal):
3 0 ReplyJesus... You should worn a man before you try to trigger his PTSD.
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It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.
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Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
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💯 came here to say that.
4 0 ReplyI learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.
I rebooted a lot.
3 0 ReplyI also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special
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Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn't have anything useful. Let's try this Google thing.
2 0 ReplyAltavista. Back when keywords still meant something.
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