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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (8 children)

You mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s?

Fucking amateurs…

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I remember these.…

And …

And…

[–] perry@lemy.lol 7 points 4 days ago

And now, this:

Cover page of The Rust Programming Language, Second Edition

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

had comprehensive manuals

You must not have coded for DOS.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

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.

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