Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 months agoWhat it's like to be a developer in 2024sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoTry being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that bit with no entries at all
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover. I rebooted a lot.
minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special
minus-squareGJdan@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoOkay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoAltavista. Back when keywords still meant something.
minus-squareJargonWagon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI’m guessing it wasore like “Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers”
minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoAnd the book had all the answers.
minus-squareHammerheart@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoSo not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this class Animal: class Dog(Animal):
Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that bit with no entries at all
I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.
I rebooted a lot.
I also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special
💯 came here to say that.
Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.
Altavista. Back when keywords still meant something.
I’m guessing it wasore like “Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers”
Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
And the book had all the answers.
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So not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this
class Animal: class Dog(Animal):