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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

the documentation is literally on Internet. Python standard library, MSDN, posgresql, odbc drivers. Everything is online. are you suggesting you memorised your whole stack, and did you printed out ? Granted * some * of it can be downloaded

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I remember when ‚man 3 printf‘ and such was a thing. Good times, those. Then there’s ‚go doc encoding/json‘ as well. I’m sure other languages have some offline docs