Dr. Dobbs

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon May 13 11:28:53 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas H. Quebbeman [mailto:dquebbeman_at_acm.org]

> For those of us who write code, it's been and remains one of
> the most significant journals in print. Byte and Kilobaud

This is a sore point of mine. DDJ used to be one of the best
programming/software engineering journals in the business, but
recently I'm afraid they're not so good about publishing the
kind of interesting theoretical or applied practical stuff that
you'd expect from them.

They're still the best in the business, make no mistake, but
business is not so good.

Instead they're recently publishing the same garbage as everyone
else; articles regarding active this, and microshaft viral that.
Of course, it's done in a better, more comprehensive way than
every other magazine does it. That's no excuse, though.

I recently wrote them a response to an offer of a greatly
discounted subscription rate, saying basically just that. If
they'd given me a discounted subscription rate seven years or so
ago, I'd have taken it in a minute. Today, though, I can't
justify paying anything at all for the same crap that you can find
in the microshaft developer network, which my company unfortunately
receives anyway.

Is it just me, or have the previously done a better job at covering
concepts and ideas in a way that didn't tie their examples to a
single platform? Maybe I'm just bitter.

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
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