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From: mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Good computer magazine sought
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Date: 26 Apr 88 02:00:28 GMT
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In article <23730@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
<I like:
<
<MacTutor (good only if you like macs)
<Dr. Dobbs Software Tools (still prints source code!)


But (unless things have changed) DDJ has become an IBM-PC magazine.
Gone are the days when you could find articles on offbeat machines and
OS's. They have even publicly stated that they didn't want ST/Amiga
articles. This is a far cry from the days when the response was "Write
one that's interesting in and of itself, and we'll publish it."

So I would add the caveat "good only if you like IBM-PCs and clones".

<Computer Language (these two are okay, not as good as the above)
<AI Expert (turned me on to "Structure & Meaning of Computer Programs"
<	by Abelson & Sussman, which got me writing constraint propagation
<	systems in C.)

I haven't looked at AIE, but CL is far better than DDJ is now. I
dropped DDJ a couple of years ago, but still get CL.

<Software Practise & Experience (Imported from England, and too expensive
<	for me to subscribe to, but it usually has one really nifty
<	article every month or so. I read it in the library, but someone
<	keeps stealing them.)

Once you get to that level, you can also start looking into the ACM &
IEEE journals. Find copies of one of the journals from either society
in your local CS library, and they should provide pointers to the rest
of them.

	<mike
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