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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by narrator on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:40PM (#26481827)
I remember developing in the early 90s and there was no open source coding tools. It was miserable. One had to write everything from scratch or buy expensive libraries.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:18PM (#26483113)
> I remember developing in the early 90s and there was no open source coding tools.

There were open source coding tools in the early 90s (a lot of the GNU tools, including Emacs and GCC, were first released in the mid-to-late 1980s.)

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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by wnissen on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:25PM (#26484012)
I know what you're saying but the discoverability of such tools, especially on DOS, was poor. Everyone I knew was buying compilers or, ahem, downloading them from other than authorized sources. It was unreal when I was able to buy a RedHat CD-ROM for a few bucks (from Tucows?) and get access to a full tool suite. You couldn't get huge software packages over 56K modems from BBSes.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by narrator on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:26PM (#26496990)
I did not have access to a unix machine, the internet or the GNU toolchain in the early 90s. I was coding on macs and DOS PCs using Borland compilers and Think C on the Mac.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by jaxn on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:44PM (#26483475)
And Matt's Script Archive was mid-90s.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by hondo77 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:33AM (#26492630)
Let me introduce you to comp.sources.unix: https://www.krsaborio.net/unix-source-code/research/1987/081...
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ... by benibela on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:28AM (#26490902)
I do that, because I use a not popular enough programming language.
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