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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 11 Oct 2009 17:36 On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:10:48 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> >At least back then there was editorial content wirth reading, written by >> >people who knew what they were talking about and (mostly) able to >> >communicate it to others. >> > >> >I learned a great deal about fractal landscapes, handy algorithms and >> >structured programming from magazines at the time. I imagine that in the >> >majority of current magazines I'm not going to find a single line of >> >code. >> >> I've not read any for some time, but PC Pro used to have ye >> olde-fashioned CompSci pages at the back, with actual code and >> articles about interesting algorithms in. > >I'm going to pretend that "Wirth reading" wasn't accidental. Ho ho! >I'll have a look at PC Pro, but I stopped reading it because I started >to feel physically ill after putting up with the anti-Apple diatribe it >printed for decades. It did? I didn't even notice... but I wasn't at all fruit-flavoured myself back then, so maybe I just wasn't paying attention. It may well not have all those interesting techie bits in the back any more, it was definitely on a downward spiral and I've not read any for, um, probably four years. Cheers - Jaimie -- I love VoIP. You don't get people phoning up to complain that the network is down. -- Peter Corlett, ASR
From: Simon Slavin on 11 Oct 2009 18:14 On 10-11-2009, Tim Gowen <tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Well yeah, it was a fictionalisation of the whole thing Which is the problem. You can't tell which bits of it are true and which bits aren't. The idea behind fictionalisation is that you keep all the important parts and change only the unimportant. But with a programme like which things are important is subjective. Simon. -- I'm trying a new usenet client for Mac, Nemo OS X, since 0 days. You can download it at http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo
From: Steve Firth on 11 Oct 2009 18:39 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > The days of magazines containing source code where you are effectively > hitting the bare metal are, sadly, behind us. That was one of the things that really alienated me from Windows/Microsoft. The changes from Windows 3.1 onwards that effectively meant that I was no longer trusted to write code for a computer that I had bought and paid for. At least Apple continues to make development tools available to all who are interested and doesn't erect arcane barriers to stop common folk writing code.
From: Chris Ridd on 12 Oct 2009 02:10 On 2009-10-11 22:36:07 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > It may well not have all those interesting techie bits in the back any > more, it was definitely on a downward spiral and I've not read any > for, um, probably four years. And now of course, you can't read it because it was shut down. -- Chris
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 12 Oct 2009 03:13
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:10:04 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2009-10-11 22:36:07 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh ><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > >> It may well not have all those interesting techie bits in the back any >> more, it was definitely on a downward spiral and I've not read any >> for, um, probably four years. > >And now of course, you can't read it because it was shut down. Oh. That probably means they did indeed continue with the interesting techie bits, rather than convert over to the usual reproducing of press releases, '100 confusing things about Windows' and 'build a pc' guides that the others all do. Cheers - Jaimie -- "I'll never forget my first wife - drove me to drink. I'm eternally grateful." - W. C. Fields |