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mgr86 · 2016-09-01 · Original thread
This reminds me of a (not so interesting) story.

In about 1997 I was really into hanging out in yahoo chat rooms and making websites. I was 11. I asked for a book on computer programming. I wanted to do something more than hack away at the perl scripts that ran my guest book. Neither my father or I really knew what I was asking. I received a nice book on PowerPC programming [0]. If I recall it read like assembly.

I still have the book on my bookshelf at home. I may have gotten 10% way through that book. It was quickly replaced with Sam's teach yourself perl in 24 hours.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/PowerPC-Programming-Intel-Programmers...

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