Dr. Dobbs to cease?

Oh bugger - what did I hit to send an empty email? Sorry. I was going to say: the last time I bought DDJ was when it ran an article about an embedded OS my company made. That was perhaps five years ago. It was depressing to see how slender a magazine had replaced the robust journal I recalled from the Olden Days. As computing becomes commoditized, there is less and less focus on the hobbyist - the people who created much of this industry in the first place! Amateur radio saw a very similar glide path, IMHO. The difference is that amateur radio still offers a unique social opportunity, while computing per se does not require the same commitment to technical knowledge to provide a social experience. In other words: to be a ham and converse with people in distant lands, you still have to know something about electronics, radio theory and communications law. To surf, email, blog, Twitter, etc., you have to know how to read the numbers on your credit card. The social experiences in computing are gravitating to niche interests - such as ours. I'm not complaining, but it is a touch sad that DDJ, C Users Journal and the like are part of history. It was fun to see people argue about the syntax of some obscure C construct or the virtues of one architecture over another, and even more fun to weigh in. -- Ian ________________________________________ From: Ian King Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 7:09 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: Dr. Dobbs to cease? ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jd [onymouse at garlic.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 6:15 AM To: General at bakaboy.onymouse.ws; Discussion@ Subject: Re: Dr. Dobbs to cease? Wuh? Huh? DDJ is ending AGAIN? Seriously: Is this 1 April? I have the last 3 years up to the last (or first?) time they stopped publishing 10 or so years ago. Never did hear that they resumed. Never saw the mag on any of the racks anywhere since. == jd California, n.: From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex." -- Ed Moran --