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You mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s?
Fucking amateurs…
Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.
I remember these.…
And …
And…
And now, this:
For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.
That C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a 'modern' C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C...
You must not have coded for DOS.
At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.
I had an Atari 800, and the manual for it was pretty complete.
At office in 1991 I started programming for IBM PCs in DOS, that was a big step into the void.
In the late 80s there were no man pages, we had a 50 page paper manual - and it was mostly useless.