I miss the days when I was developing in mostly only one language (C) and mostly only one environment (X11/Motif), all the searching I needed to do could be don

I miss the days when I was developing in mostly only one language (C) and mostly only one environment (X11/Motif), all the searching I needed to do could be done on my bookshelf that was filled by the awesome O'Reilly 'Definitive guides to the X11 system' series and other related books (like the great 'Software portability with Imake', for example) It was so nice to have all the knowledge I needed at my fingertips and I was always sure to visit any technical bookstore if I was abroad to see if there were other O'Reilly books I didn't own; I remember when I went on vacation in England feeling so bad about not being able to buy all the books I wanted in London because I didn't have enough space in my luggage... Nowadays having to switch at a moment's notice between perl, python, C and java, as well as many, many, many related environments/libraries I don't think I could function without google, there is just too much information available and it changes way too fast. It's not like it's any more complicated than it used to be (I think at one point I ended up subclassing the XmText widget to support rectangular selections, which took a while to get working) it's just the volume that makes it difficult to keep more than a couple of environments fresh in your brain without having to be online to refresh your memory.