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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing it was more like "Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And the book had all the answers.

[+] Test_Tickles 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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):

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

💯 came here to say that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn't have anything useful. Let's try this Google thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Altavista. Back when keywords still meant something.