Re:Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30...
by waffles2021 on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:39AM
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Before Google, and before there was actually content on the Internet, it was the MSDN documentation CDs and about 20-30 very large books.
People scoff these days about stack overflow, but we were more reliant on examples in print that sometimes wouldn't work. Stack overflow is just a resource only slightly les trustworthy than a first edition manual.
On the flip side, most coding was quite simple, but for internet work you needed to know perl or c++ as well.
People scoff these days about stack overflow, but we were more reliant on examples in print that sometimes wouldn't work. Stack overflow is just a resource only slightly les trustworthy than a first edition manual. On the flip side, most coding was quite simple, but for internet work you needed to know perl or c++ as well.