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  • pjmlp2 hours ago
    Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader.<p>- The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&amp;R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset.<p>- The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal<p>- The evolution of Python and related adoption<p>- Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA<p>- The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day<p>- The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started<p>- A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn&#x27;t only UNIX clones and Windows.
    • bayindirh12 minutes ago
      &#x27;&quot;C@+&quot; programming language&#x27; query in Kagi returns a single hit from Esolang [0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C@%2B%2B" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C@%2B%2B</a>
    • EdwardCoffin7 minutes ago
      I think it was C+@ (pronounced CAT, as I recall).
    • andai41 minutes ago
      Catplus?<p>Edit: Yandex can search for it! But doesn&#x27;t seem to find anything relevant.<p>(It also hates such queries and will force you to wait 2 minutes for a captcha to load.. but you get the results after a long wait! As our forefathers once did!)<p>I did find C@ and C@++ though.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C@%2B%2B" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C@%2B%2B</a>
    • vidarh2 hours ago
      A lot of very accessible algorithm articles too. I still remember the article on ternary trees.
    • raverbashing1 hour ago
      &gt; C@+ (try to search this one nowadays)<p>I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)
  • throwa3562622 hours ago
    Don&#x27;t forget to donate to archive.org while at it.<p>The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.
    • raybb2 hours ago
      Money is great, and they&#x27;re also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we&#x27;re always improving, but it&#x27;s a long road. I&#x27;m just a volunteer, but a very active one.
      • throwa3562622 hours ago
        What kind of volunteering is needed?
      • tmountain2 hours ago
        Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?
        • YesThatTom245 minutes ago
          I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc
        • trinix9121 hour ago
          Could it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I&#x27;ve seen it on some other sites.
    • damnitbuilds2 hours ago
      And if you&#x27;re a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !
      • throwa3562622 hours ago
        Working on it, only two more commas to go :)<p>I wonder if r&#x2F;datahorde folks can be of any help here.
  • niemandhier2 hours ago
    I miss dr dobb
  • ForOldHack1 hour ago
    3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :(<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Library" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr...</a><p>And the journals:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;texts?tab=collection&amp;query=Dr.+Dobb%27s&amp;page=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;texts?tab=collection&amp;query=Dr.+D...</a>
    • asdefghyk2 minutes ago
      Lots of the old magazines have not been collected and or scanned yet ……