I studied computational mathematics in the days before SO, Wikipedia, and even Google. Friends, it was a dark time.https://twitter.com/anildash/status/982252313677983744 …
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IMHO stackexchange has a lot to do with the popularity of R. CRAN's documentation is so opaque and R's default behavior is quite strange. For me R was basically unlearnable without stackexchange.
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Oh, sorry, I misread. Perhaps. It definitely has helped a lot with making some languages approachable.
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That's what I was trying to get at! (it's tough for me to write clearly on Twitter).
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Remember sourceforge "forums"? Where you shouted into the void with slim chance of anyone hearing you?
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oh god yes
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I was just yesterday talking about downloading the Javadoc, and realized that devs today will likely never have that experience.
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But there was usenet and mailing lists, etc....
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The days when tomes like this didn't spend their time in the bottom of a desk draw.pic.twitter.com/r1SRBNg9T3
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Good times!
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