▲Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6(archive.org)
57 points by kristianp 4 days ago | 4 comments
▲pjmlp 2 hours 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.

▲bayindirh 2 minutes ago
'"C@+" programming language' query in Kagi returns a single hit from Esolang [0].

[0]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B

▲andai 32 minutes ago
Catplus?

Edit: Yandex can search for it! But doesn't seem to find anything relevant.

(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!)

I did find C@ and C@++ though.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B

▲vidarh 2 hours ago
A lot of very accessible algorithm articles too. I still remember the article on ternary trees.
▲raverbashing 1 hour ago
> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays)

I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)

▲throwa356262 2 hours ago
Don't forget to donate to archive.org while at it.

The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.

▲raybb 2 hours 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.
▲throwa356262 2 hours ago
What kind of volunteering is needed?
▲tmountain 2 hours ago
Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?
▲YesThatTom2 36 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
▲trinix912 1 hour ago
Could it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I've seen it on some other sites.
▲damnitbuilds 2 hours ago
And if you're a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !
▲throwa356262 2 hours ago
Working on it, only two more commas to go :)

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

▲niemandhier 2 hours ago
I miss dr dobb
▲ForOldHack 58 minutes ago
3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :(

https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr...

And the journals:

https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+D...