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minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYou mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s? Fucking amateurs…
minus-squareMyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago had comprehensive manuals You must not have coded for DOS.
minus-squareMyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoAt home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI had an Atari 800, and the manual for it was pretty complete. At office in 1991 I started programming for IBM PCs in DOS, that was a big step into the void.
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI remember these.… And … And…
minus-squareOldMrFish@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThat C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a ‘modern’ C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C…
minus-squareMyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIn the late 80s there were no man pages, we had a 50 page paper manual - and it was mostly useless.
You mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s?
Fucking amateurs…
Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.
You must not have coded for DOS.
At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.
I had an Atari 800, and the manual for it was pretty complete.
At office in 1991 I started programming for IBM PCs in DOS, that was a big step into the void.
I remember these.…
And …
And…
And now, this:
That C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a ‘modern’ C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C…
For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.
In the late 80s there were no man pages, we had a 50 page paper manual - and it was mostly useless.