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I kind of miss the days where you would turn to the manual, read and understand it, before doing serious work in a language. I've had a junior dev ask me what
by hendi_ 8y ago
I kind of miss the days where you would turn to the manual, read and understand it, before doing serious work in a language.
I've had a junior dev ask me what kind of strange multiplication thing was going on in our C code base. If you don't even know about pointers, maybe you're not "junior" yet and should learn some more.
- chriswarbo 8y agoThe asterisk symbol in C is heavily overloaded too; it can mean a pointer type, dereferencing a pointer, multiplication (of ints, floats, ...).
- whatcanthisbee 8y agoanother instance where IDEs can help juniors by providing hover-to-show-name/descriptions