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Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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raverbashing wrote: post #12
pjmlp wrote: post #5

Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader. - The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset. - The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal - The evolution of Python and related adoption - Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+…

> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays) I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)

Got the name a bit off, see other HNers replies.

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by pjmlp »

bayindirh wrote: post #16
pjmlp wrote: post #5

Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader. - The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset. - The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal - The evolution of Python and related adoption - Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+…

'"C@+" programming language' query in Kagi returns a single hit from Esolang [0]. [0]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B

See reply from EdwardCoffin.

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by supliminal »

cobbzilla wrote: post #23

A quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like: obj [1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e...

Wasn’t this an April 1st entry? :-)

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by npongratz »

throwa356262 wrote: post #8
damnitbuilds wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And if you're a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !

Working on it, only two more commas to go :) I wonder if r/datahorde folks can be of any help here.

I believe you mean r/datahoarder: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

r/datahorde is different, and a ghost town.

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by bitexploder »

EdwardCoffin wrote: post #17
pjmlp wrote: post #5

Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader. - The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset. - The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal - The evolution of Python and related adoption - Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+…

I think it was C+@ (pronounced CAT, as I recall). Edit: pasting a comment of mine from here in 2019 [1]: The language is C+@ [2]. I dug up an article about it in Dr. Dobbs Journal, the October 1993 issue. This does not seem to be the article I am remembering, since it does not go into the instruction interleaving technique anywhere near as much as I remember, but they do mention it and say it was called "beading": Th…

I asked the AI. It’s first reference was this comment. They were really doing a lot in the 80s at Bell Labs.

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by jhbadger »

tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #27

Is there any magazines like this left? When I was a kid, I used to buy these. I didn't even have a computer, I was just enjoying imagining what I could do if I had one. Didn't understand 10% or the content though.

I'd recommend Paged Out https://pagedout.institute/

And PoCoGTFO https://alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

These are free modern magazines that capture the feeling of joy of programming that Dobbs and BYTE used to have

Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Post by myth_drannon »

ForOldHack wrote: post #13

3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :( https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr... And the journals: https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+D...

A better link for Dr. Dobb's collection: https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal
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