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I read and reference older programming books regularly in two areas: Perl and HTML/JavaScript/CSS. Perl has high degree of backwards compatibility, and the Web
by forgotmypw17 4y ago
I read and reference older programming books regularly in two areas: Perl and HTML/JavaScript/CSS. Perl has high degree of backwards compatibility, and the Web stuff is helpful for building compatibly with older and retro browsers. Another area where older books are helpful to me is shell scripting. On the other hand, for languages which change and break backwards compatibility regularly, such as Python, not as useful.