Thank you, that's quite the trip down the memory lane! I devoured Dr. Dobb's when I was a teenager!
I ended up on Michael Swaine's Medium site [1], and then ordered his book: "Fire in the Valley" (2014) [2].
Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)
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#42Some 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@+…
Here is the mythical programming language C@
It is programming humor with cats.
http://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT
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#43Since we're talking about archive.org stuff, if y'all will permit it, I'd like to call attention to this thread as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702136
It looks like CiteseerX from PSU is now effectively offline and everything is redirecting to the Wayback Machine. But many of those links are not in the Wayback Machine. Hopefully there is - or can be - some focused effort to get that content transferred over, if the citeseerx site is really going away for good.
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#44I also liked Borland's Turbo Technix - https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=turbo...
Many of us followed Jeff D to PC Techniques and Visual Developer - http://www.duntemann.com/vdmarchive.htm
Re: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)
#45Some 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…
Ah, the e2 article says it was patented, so no wonder it never gained traction. Surely that patent is long expired, though?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. I made a good-faith effort at searching the site for anything requesting volunteer work, and came up empty. Got a pointer? What are they looking for?
https://openlibrary.org/volunteer is the general page but I'm assuming you want the technical stuff so https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/C...
I'm a very active volunteer and can always use the help of folks that have tech experience already. We get lots of student volunteers that require a lot of work to shepherd. As such, issues tend to be claimed pretty fast but also medium sized ones don't always get through the finish line.
Anyway, if you're seriously willing to commit some time you can tag me on their slack/github (@raybb). I'm currently doing a lot of performance related work (primarily migrating their codebase to fastapi) and I could use help but don't always open issues for it because sometimes guiding a non-experienced person is more work than just doing it.
There's also quite some design work going on to move things into the modern age and more reliable. One small thing that comes to mind is getting rid of jquery where it's used casually (not where a library depends on it). We have a few files like that.
Happy to chat more with anyone who is seriously willing to spend time to tackle medium sized issues with a few rounds of feedback!
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.
What kind of volunteering is needed?
Just posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466
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#49According to this, Dr Dobbs was to stop new articles at the end of 2014:
https://slashdot.org/story/211167
Before the internet it was a good way to have a picture of what was out there. I remember the magazines had a particular smell in early 90s. Like a sweet smell, different to other magazines. There was rarely an Mac content though, which seems shortsighted. Swaine started writing Mac articles at some point if I recall, but they weren't very technical, often about hypercard?
I was reading this article from '91, the creator of Wizard C, Bob Jarvis criticised C++'s lack of modules, something it's getting around 35 years later. 91 was when Mode X graphics programming was introduced by Abrash in a series of articles.
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#50Other magazines mentioned but no love for Computer Language Magazine? It held its own with DDJ when it came to software and theoretical topics.