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From: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
Message-ID: <4107@claris.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:58:44 GMT
References: <730043@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <730043@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
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>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 
>pick out the algorithm that the author is explaining, but this is a lot 
>less useful than just typing in the code verbatim and using it in my 
>LSC application.


I'm sure that David Smith is well aware of the interest in C and would be very
happy to publish such articles.  Has it occurred to you that it is possible
that noone is submitting articles written in C at the moment?  He can only
publish that which is submitted -- perhaps Dave Kelly (BASIC) and Jorg
Langkowski (Threaded langs) are more conscientious about getting their
submissions to the magazine for publication.  MacTutor has frequently put
statements soliciting submissions into the magazine, but I believe that there
is a tendency for people to "not get around to" polishing up a submission (I
know that is the case for myself, with three semi-complete MacTutor articles
on my disk).  Writing for magazines is a sideline for me and has to be done
on a time-available basis, I'd guess that it is the same for the majority of
the other people who might submit an article in C to MacTutor.

Dennis Cohen
Claris
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!