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"I have to say, I do sometimes miss learning tech stuff from books. While it's all online and in theory up to date, there is something to be said for the curate
by rqtwteye 4y ago
"I have to say, I do sometimes miss learning tech stuff from books. While it's all online and in theory up to date, there is something to be said for the curated experience of a book."
I miss the times when you could read K&R, one of Stroustroup's books and an STL book and you pretty much knew most of what there was to know.
- robotresearcher 4y agoAlong with Stevens’ Programming in the UNIX environment, a few volumes of the X Window System and Inside Macintosh. My dojo.
- ironmagma 4y agoThat was never most of what there was to know. Lambda calculus was invented before computers.