[lugm.org] Pile of Dr Dobbs issues for Library

[Raj Julha]

Avinash Meetoo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Loganaden Velvindron<gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> Dr Stefan Brandle has generously donated a couple
>> of (recent) Dr Dobbs magazines to LUGM.
>>
>> Those will be available at the next meeting, if the
>> Managing Committee does not have any objections :-)
>>     
>
> Excellent news, Logan!
>
> As a matter of fact, I am (was?) an avid fan of the famous DrDobbs
> Journal (which is not printed anymore now -- it's only available
> online at http://www.ddj.com/ and as a small supplement in the
> Software Developer magazine if I am not mistaken...)
>
> But, around 1990, when I was 16-17, I fondly remember saving my money
> to buy each issue. It was around Rs 100 at that time. The content was
> fantastic. There were excellent articles by real geeks and software
> developers and there were a lot of code to read (I miss this. I'm
> bored with those "IT" magazines with superficial articles but without
> a single line of code to marvel at...)
>
> I have around 20-30 issues dating from that time that I still read
> from time to time... with a lot of emotion :-)
>
> Interestingly, the last editor of DrDobbs Journal, Michael Swaine, is
> now the editor for the new magazine being published online by the
> Pragmatic Programmers. Check it at http://www.pragprog.com/magazines
>
> Avinash
>
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Thanks for the Pragmatic Programmers mag Avinash. I had a DDJ 
subscription for a couple of years until it was merged became Software 
Developer Magazine when I thought there were way too many online 
materials to justfy the Rs 1800 per year that I was paying :-).

Raj