Sibbo to Programmer [email protected] • 18 days agoWhat it's like to be a developer in 2024sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square276fedilinkarrow-up11.28Karrow-down120file-text
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minus-square@kaffienelinkEnglish38•edit-217 days agoTry being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all
minus-square@JargonWagonlink11•edit-216 days agoI’m guessing it was more like “Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•16 days agoThe book had half ass answers. Their examples rarely had anything to do with reality.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•15 days agoSo not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this class Animal: class Dog(Animal):
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•15 days agoJesus… You should worn a man before you try to trigger his PTSD.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•16 days agoIt was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.
minus-square@kaffienelinkEnglish3•16 days agoYeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•16 days agoI learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover. I rebooted a lot.
minus-square@kaffienelinkEnglish2•edit-216 days agoI 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•17 days agoOkay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•17 days agoAltavista. Back when keywords still meant something.
Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all
I’m guessing it was more like “Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers”
And the book had all the answers.
The book had half ass answers. Their examples rarely had anything to do with reality.
So not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this
class Animal: class Dog(Animal):Jesus… You should worn a man before you try to trigger his PTSD.
It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.
Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
💯 came here to say that.
I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.
I rebooted a lot.
I 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
Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.
Altavista. Back when keywords still meant something.