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From: libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: va_list used in 
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Date: 18 Aug 89 23:30:42 GMT
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Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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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.