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From: ruiu@tic.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Users' Group
Message-ID: <145@tic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 15:36:42 EST
Article-I.D.: tic.145
Posted: Mon Nov  9 15:36:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 17:38:38 EST
References: <2191@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: U of A, E.E., Edmonton,Canada
Lines: 22
Keywords: CUG, comments
Summary: CUG newsletter is first rate.

In article <2191@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 
> 	Does anyone have any comment on the usefulness of becoming a member
> of the "C Users' Group" and receiving their monthly newsletter ?

Though, I am *not* a member I must recommend the CUG because of the quality of 
their news-letter. Copies often filter down to me, and I often think about 
joining just for this publication. If I only had *time* to read another trade
mag....

On an aside: CUG descended from the BDS-C(an old, fast,excellent CP/M C) users
group. I think C owes as much of it's popularity to Leor Zolman (BDS author)
and Ron Cain (Small-C) as to the venerable K&R. There are a LOT of people out
there who have made C what it is today, and learned C because of these two.
They used to give me a lot of funny looks when I fired up BDS... "C, what a
silly name for a programming language." :-)

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