How did people program before Stack Overflow?

>>61544471
they didn't

Only educated individuals dare took the plunge. Not sure how to say this without offending anyone but the field was a lot less diverse.

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>>61544507
Fuck you, that offended me.

>>61544471
People also wrote better code back then, can you imagine why?

>>61544471

they got their slaves to do it

books, trial and error

>>61544471
They had to read the shit out of god damn manuals, and hope the books weren't shit either. Look at most C code. Even today, the comments are garbage. It was a nightmare.

People used to start with the examples, manipulate and experiment with them, move things around, change pieces of it from the definitions provided in the book, combine with other concepts they learned earlier, etc. Eventually you learned the way these new concepts worked. You added it to your tool belt, and incorporated it into your own code. But yeah that's old school shit, nobody does that anymore. Now you just copy shit from the internet and call it coding.

I would randomly type code and test until shit worked somehow. After that I never looked at the code again. I wasn't even curious about why it worked.

I did that on Clipper 5.
Good times.

>>61544471
>Stack Overflow
They didn't make infinite recursive calls.

Am I the only anon who stopped using stack overflow after graduating?

Seriously, I only find myself looking up exception explanations only if I'm stumped and that usually all it takes to get a working solution afterwards. It's like I magically stopped needing to go to the internet for answers. Feels weird.

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>>61544471
By reading books.
Now post more Kanna.

>>61544471

Read the documentation.

>>61549458
It's maybe because you're a neet

>>61549922
But I'm employed anon. I build an ERP system for the S&P 500 company I work for

>>61549458
You are now the expert that helps others on the site
Do your part, continue the cycle

>>61544471
They read documentation, emailed people they knew who were "better", used IRC and forums