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Anyone can program without an internet connection. You just need the local documentation.
by prmoustache 3y ago
Anyone can program without an internet connection. You just need the local documentation.
- jejeyyy77 3y agonot practical
- vlod 3y agoHow do you think developers built programs pre google/stack-overflow? i.e. early to late 90's.
- ghaff 3y agoA shelf or two full of books and magazines and generally much more slowly.
- lostlogin 3y agoIt was hard and less people did it.
- flskafdslaf 3y agoAnd now it's easy and we're drowning in endless webby and cloudy cruft.
- prmoustache 3y agoThe people who declared themselves developers/programmers weren't just serial copy/pasters that is for sure.
- ht85 3y agoExactly, when my car doesn't work I just ride one of my horses /s
- throwawaykk4 3y agoLocal documentation does not exist anymore, in a practical form. You need the official docs plus countless other resources from other people and for a relevant version of your software. Gone are the days a few books and a computer was all you needed. Your compiler is spilling out some weird message? Go scavenge the interwebs for someone who figured it out or spend your whole weekend in that.
- fragmede 3y agosomeplace like http://devdocs.io http://devdocs.io goes real far
- prmoustache 3y agoIf you can't understand the messages from your complier or need other resources from people that you can't find in the doc, either the language/compiler you are using is crappy and you should use a real one, either you aren't a developer but a copy/paster that pretend to be one.