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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? by hnick on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:12AM (#26870926)
Most frequently I do it for PHP. I help a friend with a Wordpress site, PHP is easy to read but I'm hardly fluent in the ins-and-outs, and a simple Wordpress hook added to functions.php can fix so many issues. I always leave a comment with the full link for context.
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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? by rolandog on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:12AM (#26871998)
That's the case of for me as well.

I always leave a comment trying to explain to my future self where I learned to do stuff that was not intuitive.

Bash, Make, non-standard Python libraries, E-Lisp, and Fortran.

Also, it's been quite a while since I've touched JavaScript, so the newer features have been harder to grok.

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