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From: shane@chianti.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
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Date: 18 Jul 88 15:35:34 GMT
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In article <730043@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>
>Is anyone besides me getting frustrated at the lack of LSC (or at least
>MPW C) examples in MacTutor?  
>
>The last 2 (or was it 3?) issue haven't had any C articles!!!  
>Isn't C the language of the 80's, as well as the most popular
>Mac programming language?
>
>iHowever, they *do* consistently have Forth (gee, how many of us use that?), 
>Basic, asm, and Pascal articles.  Pascal I can cope with, but Basic and 
>Forth are pretty useless, as far as I'm concerned.  Sure, I can usually 
>
>-Ted

You may consider the articles useless, but many people may not.  (This isn't
the thrust of this posint.)

I suspect that the reason that there are not enough C articles is that not
enough good quality articles are being submitted for publication.  An
editor can only publish what is offered.

If you want some more articles, write them and try to sell them.  Ask for the
submission guidelines for articles.  Don't just complain, help fix the
problem.

(And I am hoping to get an article or two written by the end of the year on
some really esoteric hacking I've been working on.)

Shane Looker
Looker@um.cc.umich.edu