• kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.

      I rebooted a lot.

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        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

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      6 months ago

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