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From: mb@sparrms.ists.ca (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Old format Computing Surveys
Message-ID: <1991May13.133955.29618@sparrms.ists.ca>
Date: 13 May 91 13:39:55 GMT
Organization: Spar Aerospace Ltd, Toronto, Canada
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While the debate rages on about CACM - I *much* preferred the old format
which had the benefit of readability and *not* feeling like a 
here-today-trash-tomorrow trade magazine - am I alone in feeling that
ACM Computing Surveys actually could do with a face lift?

Given the small format, two columns of six-and-one-hypehenated-half words 
per column seems ridiculous. The fonts used also seem cramped and hard
to read. A single column page set in (say) Times Roman would be much
easier to read.

The content (and easy-to-find contents list) are good though. (I thought
the recent article on "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About
Floating Point" particularly good.)

The only other improvement I would make is to put a few keywords on the
spine to make it easy to find articles or issues on a particular subject.