Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site packet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: There is a "Modular C" (onto a tangent...) Message-ID: <270@packet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 01:08:25 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.270 Posted: Sat Jul 2 01:08:25 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 05:51:24 EDT References: uiucdcs.2222 <4887@cca.UUCP> Organization: PacketCable,Inc. Cupertino, CA. Lines: 17 As long as people are suggesting SIGPLAN, let me NOT suggest it. I have read SIGPLAN since about 1979, and I let me membership (actually subscription, but they can call it anything they want) lapse this year when I renewed. 99% of the articles they publish are rather worthless at best. The one that will always stick in my mind is (a new low) 'Finite State Diagrams for Western Swing Dancing'. You must remember that SIGPLAN (and most if not all of the SIG publications) is NOT a refereed publication, and it will usually publish anything that is sent in, no matter how trivial the material (see the above title). I will agree that there are occasional gems, but spending $22 a year and wading through all of the dreck simply wasn't worth it anymore, even if I can do it on company time and with a company membership... -- >From the dungeons of the Warlock: Chuck Von Rospach ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv (chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!