ddern@BBNCCH.ARPA (09/17/84)
From: Daniel Dern <ddern@BBNCCH.ARPA> Can we move the trashing of trade pubs to another discussion forum, like /dev/null, please? It was kind of a low blow to move from subscription concerns to contents, anyhoo. (And remember your next potential employer may be reading your flames.) How many other programmer environments have their own non-vendor-sponsored publication, BTW, hmmm? Daniel Dern ddern@bbn.arpa
steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (09/18/84)
*** > Can we move the trashing of trade pubs to another discussion forum, like > /dev/null, please? It was kind of a low blow to move from subscription > concerns to contents, anyhoo. Whew, what a relief!! I coauthored an article in issue #4 and I felt like I was getting blamed for the whole magazine!! I am truely sincerly interested in promoting UNIX for text processing. It is one of its strong points. I LIKE Writer's Workbench and it has helped my writing. When I first started using UNIX (Version 6), the only available literature on it was "The C Programming Language", the manual, and a Bell Systems Technical Journal. My feeling is that in the long run magazines like UNIX World will benefit all of us who make a living developing UNIX applications and supporting UNIX. Where else would an article about WWB be appropriate? I have been forwarding anything that could possibly be useful to the people I know that have some input to the magazine (Bill King and Rebecca Thomas). I do not forward insults because I can't see how insults can do anything but hurt people's feelings. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/
david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo) (09/19/84)
>>How many other programmer environments have their own non-vendor-sponsored >>publication, BTW, hmmm? RSTS/E! In fact, "DEC Professional" (nee "RSTS Professional") now covers VMS as well, so it counts twice. I think it is older than any Unix rag.