Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6
27 points by kristianp 5 days ago | 9 comments

pjmlp 29 minutes ago
Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader.

- The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset.

- The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal

- The evolution of Python and related adoption

- Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA

- The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day

- The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started

- A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn't only UNIX clones and Windows.

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vidarh 22 minutes ago
A lot of very accessible algorithm articles too. I still remember the article on ternary trees.
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throwa356262 57 minutes ago
Don't forget to donate to archive.org while at it.

The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.

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raybb 46 minutes ago
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.
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tmountain 14 minutes ago
Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?
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throwa356262 15 minutes ago
What kind of volunteering is needed?
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damnitbuilds 24 minutes ago
And if you're a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !
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throwa356262 16 minutes ago
Working on it, only two more commas to go :)

I wonder if r/datahorde folks can be of any help here.

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niemandhier 31 minutes ago
I miss dr dobb
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