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Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

70 pointsby kristianplast Sunday at 12:37 AM21 commentsview on HN

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pjmlptoday at 8:47 AM

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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throwa356262today at 8:20 AM

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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niemandhiertoday at 8:45 AM

I miss dr dobb