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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by rqtwteye on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:56PM (#34830131)
"I have to say, I do sometimes miss learning tech stuff from books. While it's all online and in theory up to date, there is something to be said for the curated experience of a book."

I miss the times when you could read K&R, one of Stroustroup's books and an STL book and you pretty much knew most of what there was to know.

Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by robotresearcher on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:30AM (#34831153)
Along with Stevens’ Programming in the UNIX environment, a few volumes of the X Window System and Inside Macintosh.

My dojo.

Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by ironmagma on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:33AM (#34831909)
That was never most of what there was to know. Lambda calculus was invented before computers.