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Subject: Forth in the Computer Journal
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Date: 27 Jan 91 22:36:25 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 13,  Topic 1
Message 13        Sun Jan 27, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 15:00 EST
 
Chris:

Sorry it took so long to respond to your first message -- I only log into
GEnie once a week.  (Usu. Sundays.)  A longer reply re. articles is coming via
GEnie mail.  Comments of general interest follow.

My remark about being warned was prompted by my unfortunate habit of writing
to the lowest common denominator.  I have faith in your editorial pencil if I
stray.

I'm sorry to hear Forth underrepresented in your contributors.  I blush to
admit that many of my candidates are in the category of hardware or embedded
systems.  Probably because TCJ seems to be the only outlet for hardware
articles these days.

The Forth community is well served elsewhere, but this doesn't mean TCJ has no
niche to fill.  In general, I aim my articles thus:

   Forth Dimensions: "advanced" Forth topics.

   SIGForth newsletter: short "techniques" articles.

   JFAR: "academic" articles, work I do at the University.

   Embedded Systems Programming: "generic" articles about embedded
   systems programming, i.e., not processor- or hardware-specific.
   (I haven't submitted any yet, but I have two pending.)

   Dr. Dobbs: anything using C, Pascal, or Modula-2, i.e., nothing.

   Computer Language:  ditto.

   Conference proceedings:  short articles about what I've been
   doing lately.

   TCJ: "introductory" Forth topics, anything hardware-related or
   hardware-specific.

This is my personal view of the niches filled by these publications. Perhaps
others can comment, or post their own lists.

TCJ plays a very valuable role for me: it's where I can write and read about
hardware and hardware-specific software.  ESP, for example, prefers "generic"
articles which are of interest to all embedded systems programmers.  Most of
the others don't really want to publish schematics or the gory details of
obscure chips.  So where but TCJ can I read about SCSI interfaces, or write
about hacking the Super8?  (It's also where I read about CP/M, but I'm sure
that aspect of TCJ is well covered.)


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