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Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal by pjmlp on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:54AM (#13947758)
Usually those praises come from young developers that never developed software back in the days when static linking was the only option.

So they look at Go's static linking, their experiences using -static in gcc and glibc, and think they just found something magical.

It is interesting the amount of knowledge that gets lost within a few generations.

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Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal by devmunchies on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:46AM (#13949680)
> It is interesting the amount of knowledge that gets lost within a few generations.

I've only been programming for 4 years. What's the second best way to learn the old practices and the way things were done (the first best being "living back then").

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Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal by pjmlp on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:28PM (#13950048)
If you enjoy reading documents, BITSAVERS.ORG is a treasure mine full of lost knowledge.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers

Here you will find Xerox PARC, DEC, Burroughs, Apple, Sun, Borland,... old research documents, papers, manuals.

In the context of static compilation, for example in MS-DOS, take Turbo Pascal 6.0 programmer's guide.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturVersion6.0Pr...

For some 8 bit love you can check ZX Spectrum and Atari archives.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

http://www.atariarchives.org/

Next step is to get an emulator for any of those old OS/computers and try to follow along one of those books.

Also there are some videos on YouTube showing those systems.

"The Smalltalk-80 Programming System"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU

"NeXT vs Sun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

"Steve Jobs internal demo of NeXTSTEP 3"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

"Amiga Programming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOAyVIWFaXQ&list=PL1E7187BCF...

"Amiga Hardware Programming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&list=PLc3ltHgmii...

The Mother of All Demos"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

Just a very tiny sample of videos

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Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal by nurettin on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:59PM (#13953235)
I emailed the bitsavers link to our programming team at work with the subject: "jurassic park"
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