1990s Programming: Discovering Public Domain Sample Code on CD-ROM
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Summary
The article describes programming in the 1990s as a challenging process requiring extensive documentation and trial-and-error learning. The author shares a "revolutionary" discovery of a CD-ROM containing public domain sample code for various applications, which simplified development by providing ready-to-use examples for common programming tasks like creating file managers.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledYou know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature.
Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task.
Well, I found a revolutionary way to write code. You see, I got this CD-ROM from a friend.
It's full of public domain sample code for every kind of application you could write.
You want to write a file manager like Norton Commander? Well, just browse to the fileman\ofm\nc folder in the CD.
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