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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: review of `Computer Language' magazine
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 19:27:52 EST
Article-I.D.: harvard.281
Posted: Thu Jan 10 19:27:52 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:33:22 EST
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Organization: Aiken Comp. Lab., Harvard
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`Computer Language' magazine (not to be confused with `Computer
Languages', a scholarly journal) is a new magazine devoted to
programming languages on microcomputers.

It is a poor magazine, reflecting the sea of ignorance about computer
science in general and programming languages in particular among the
microcomputer crowd.  The usual solecisms appear, e.g. the confusion of
a language with its implementation(s), and, though obeisance is
periodically paid to Knuth and Dijkstra, no one writing the articles
seems to know much.  The writing is slick.

This review is based on the January issue, with articles on "Macros and
Procedures", "The IIIrd Dimension--Programming in dBase III",
"Extensibility in Forth", "A Structured Fortran", and "Program in
Style", along with departments.

So if you want (or need) to keep up with language implementations on
microcomputers, you might have to get this rag.  The ads are there.
Otherwise, stay away.

Computer Language		monthly, $24/year, $2.95/issue
2443 Fillmore St., Suite 346
San Fransisco, CA 94115