On Tuesday 13 January 2009 01:45:16 am Richard wrote:
In article
<FF6AB92D97A23A409701CDBF66F03FCD2A56EDE1 at 505fuji>,
Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> writes:
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
The same experience exists today, its called the 'net. Whether its
mailing lists, or comp.lang.c++, or a blog, the social interaction is
still there -- its just not mediated by a dead tree magazine. We
don't *need* the magazines as a springboard for our conversations
anymore -- we can talk to each other directly. The community of
programmers is more alive than ever from where I sit, its just not
happening on the pages of dead tree magazines like BYTE or DDJ.
Funny, I used to think of Byte as a hardware mag...
It was when they drifted away from that I started to lose interest.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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