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1 year agoThis. I used to also keep a notebook with me and jot down the commands I used often. Eventually I learned other ways to jolt my memory and learned to use man. As time went by I used my notebook less and less.
This. I used to also keep a notebook with me and jot down the commands I used often. Eventually I learned other ways to jolt my memory and learned to use man. As time went by I used my notebook less and less.
It’s a little hard to iterate and think when you’re adding to a complicated codebase you might not have worked with in several months, or even just a portion of a project that’s seemed stable for a long time. In that scenario, debuggers are able to shorten the getting up to speed process by quite a bit.
Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.