“Just” read documentation, says someone assuming past documentation is accurate, comprehensible, and relevant.
I taught myself QBASIC from the help files. I still found Open Watcom’s documentation frankly terrible, bordering useless. There’s comments in the original Doom source code lamenting how shite the dead-tree books were.
If it works it can still be worse code than if somebody had just read documentation.
Then again, dead internet theory means nobody watches what AI is “documenting” and in the future documentation will be worthless.
“Just” read documentation, says someone assuming past documentation is accurate, comprehensible, and relevant.
I taught myself QBASIC from the help files. I still found Open Watcom’s documentation frankly terrible, bordering useless. There’s comments in the original Doom source code lamenting how shite the dead-tree books were.