Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!proper!gam From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Computer Magazines Message-ID: <991@proper.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 23:46:07 EST Article-I.D.: proper.991 Posted: Tue Feb 7 23:46:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:51:56 EST References: <4701@rochester.UUCP>, <1173@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 19 I agree! Popular computer magazines have become really useless. I let my subscription to BYTE die out after November after 4 years. Once they did their (rather fair) articles on Unix and C, there wasn't much left for them to do...! (And then, when they had a full-page display ad for a Buick -- a Buick! -- I felt this magazine was becomming something different that I didn't want to be a part of any more ...). Of course, Jerry Pournelle's articles contribute further to mindless programming (besides his mindlessly wandering writing style): his proposals for a merger of Pascal and Basic cause me some despair. So what's there left to read? There must be something... -- Gordon A. Moffett { allegra, decvax!decwrl } !amd70!proper hplabs!intelca!proper!gam