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

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

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  • pjmlp
    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@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA- The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day- The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started- A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn't only UNIX clones and Windows.
  • mindcrime
    Since we're talking about archive.org stuff, if y'all will permit it, I'd like to call attention to this thread as wellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702136It 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.
  • moochamerth
    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].[1] https://medium.com/@michaelswaine[2] https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/
  • throwa356262
    Don't forget to donate to archive.org while at it.The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.
  • cobbzilla
    A quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like: obj<-method arg1 arg2; [1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e...
  • ForOldHack
  • teunispeters
    I bought every issue I could find of this ....always so much inspiration!
  • niemandhier
    I miss dr dobb
  • tuwtuwtuwtuw
    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.
  • myth_drannon