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> We read paper documentation. That was slower. But better.
by commandlinefan 6y ago
> We read paper documentation. That was slower.
But better.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoIt depends. At the times there were very expensive books in hardcover with much whitespace, superflouos and sometimes wrong illustrations. Looked good in your book shelves, but a waste of money. Similar to fad driven development nowadays, in a way, but not exactly. At the other end books from the former German Democratic Republic, Softcover, thin, often already yellowing paper, shabby looking typeset. But: no frills, rarely any obivious errors, and straight to the point while cheap. Guess which i did prefer? edit: sample https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/projects:vack_-_programmieren_mit_forth https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/projects:vack_-_programmie...
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoSure. But K&R, Jensen & Wirth, the 68000 chip book, the Camel book (Perl), and so on, were more like GDR books, except with better paper. The expensive hardcover books, in my recollection, became popular later - 1990s, maybe. Certainly in the early days, if you wanted to learn C, you reached for K&R.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoYah, i know. Didn't want to overgeneralize. Just show two extreme points of the spectrum. Therefore: it depends ;->