Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!libes From: libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: va_list used inMessage-ID: <1515@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> Date: 18 Aug 89 23:30:42 GMT References: <1140@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG> <10720@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2095@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <10739@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13572@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <10766@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Aug18.184635.26773@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 37 In article <1989Aug18.184635.26773@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <10766@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>You should read Sue Meloy's article in the Journal of C Language >>Translation... > >How about a summary, Doug? Many of us thought JCLT was interesting until >we saw the price tag, at which point we said "forget it". I won't duplicate Doug's effort to post a summary of what was in the first issue, but I will say that V1#1 was worthwhile. In fact, I was extremely impressed. The articles were real "meat" articles spelling out problems and solutions to the real hard problems facing C implementors and programmers today. About half of the essays were absolutely superb. (The rest were just good.) I was especially impressed with a historical article by Plauger who always writes with incredible authority. He answered many questions that I had always wondered about. It is likely that you may see this material if you are a member of any of the C standards committees. Some of it has appeared before in those forums, although some of it is clearly new. Nonetheless, it is entirely different than, say, the C Users Journal (which I occasionally write for, and which is aimed at the C programmer) or this newsgroup (which has entirely too much chaff). JCLT is aimed at people designing C language tools, although it is certainly interesting to other parties (like me). As far as the price, I can't afford it either, but I am asking my employer to buy a subscription. (You'll notice this in your next tax increase.) If you are really as interested in C as you claim to be, get your employer to buy a copy for crissakes. Don Libes libes@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes Disclaimer: I have no connection whatsoever to JCLT.