Jerry Pournelle, Byte, Python, and Python in a Nutshell

[Jack Diederich]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 09:57:37AM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ho! Another old timer.  I'm pretty sure I have an old 80-Micro around here
> > somewhere...
> > 
> > FWIW, I learned that you can judge the relevance (and long-term survival
> > prospects) by pretty accurately from pagecount.  I watched 80-Micro do the
> > thin->thicker->mondo->thick->thin->defunct thing.  Then Byte did the same
> > thing, now I see that 'Linux Journal' is at the 'thicker' stage...
> 
> And Dr. Dobbs at the second thin stage, I fear.

The death (or permanent hiatus) of Dr Ecco's Omniheurst Corner was the DDJ 
turning point for me.  Perl golf is a poor (and painful) substitute.
I wait patiently for the 2003 ICFP to assuage my "solve this hard problem
cleverly and first" urges.

-jack