palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) (04/22/88)
I am getting more and more fed up with Byte's articles. Byte has
obviously switched from being a programmer magazine to what it is now,
a consumer magazine specializing in equipment reviews. I'm not sure when
it happened, but I've seen no evidence of the invasion of the reviews in
1983 issues.
Is there any magazine out there which is NOW, what Byte was five years ago?
Or have they all become consumer rags?
Please email any resonses; I don't usually read these newsgroups.
Johan Larson
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------------------------------------------------------------------------oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (04/24/88)
I like:
MacTutor (good only if you like macs)
Dr. Dobbs Software Tools (still prints source code!)
Both of these have been good enough that I've sent in orders for
disks of one-month's source code.
Computer Language (these two are okay, not as good as the above)
AI Expert (turned me on to "Structure & Meaning of Computer Programs"
by Abelson & Sussman, which got me writing constraint propagation
systems in C.)
Software Practise & Experience (Imported from England, and too expensive
for me to subscribe to, but it usually has one really nifty
article every month or so. I read it in the library, but someone
keeps stealing them.)
I don't have a good suggestion for a magazine with hardware construction
articles. Electronic Musician? Radio-Electronics?
(Anybody got an easy construction article for a digital delay unit,
preferably with MIDI control?)
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Uucp: {uwvax,decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edumwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) (04/26/88)
In article <23730@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
<I like:
<
<MacTutor (good only if you like macs)
<Dr. Dobbs Software Tools (still prints source code!)
But (unless things have changed) DDJ has become an IBM-PC magazine.
Gone are the days when you could find articles on offbeat machines and
OS's. They have even publicly stated that they didn't want ST/Amiga
articles. This is a far cry from the days when the response was "Write
one that's interesting in and of itself, and we'll publish it."
So I would add the caveat "good only if you like IBM-PCs and clones".
<Computer Language (these two are okay, not as good as the above)
<AI Expert (turned me on to "Structure & Meaning of Computer Programs"
< by Abelson & Sussman, which got me writing constraint propagation
< systems in C.)
I haven't looked at AIE, but CL is far better than DDJ is now. I
dropped DDJ a couple of years ago, but still get CL.
<Software Practise & Experience (Imported from England, and too expensive
< for me to subscribe to, but it usually has one really nifty
< article every month or so. I read it in the library, but someone
< keeps stealing them.)
Once you get to that level, you can also start looking into the ACM &
IEEE journals. Find copies of one of the journals from either society
in your local CS library, and they should provide pointers to the rest
of them.
<mike
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