I don't think I've ever been able to write software without an API reference, and I've been at it since the (late) 1980s. I guess it depends on what you're Goog

I don't think I've ever been able to write software without an API reference, and I've been at it since the (late) 1980s. I guess it depends on what you're Googling. Sometimes I can work out a way to do something, but what I really want is the idiomatic way to do it. No way to get there but to look it up. Or I need to know some specific fiddly bit about how a function behaves. That's a reference lookup. If I'm Googling "how to reverse a linked list" ;-(, well, that's maybe not so great.