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[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I remember these.…

And …

And…

[-] perry@lemy.lol 7 points 1 month ago

And now, this:

Cover page of The Rust Programming Language, Second Edition

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] OldMrFish@lemmy.one 2 points 4 weeks ago

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...

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

had comprehensive manuals

You must not have coded for DOS.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks 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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