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alexpgpI must admit that I missed the "sunsetting" of Dr. Dobb's this past December, after almost 40 years of publication. Somewhere, I think I still have some of the early issues (perhaps even the #1).
I thought of the magazine because during the course of the day, I had given quite a bit of thought to something my cardiologist said on Monday during my follow-up, about my 2013 hospitalization in Moscow, i.e., given what was recently learned about my heart, he was really surprised I hadn't died back then.
And dying suddenly of heart disease was something that happened to an editor at Dr. Dobb's (or maybe it was a different Miller Freeman publication), and I was trying to recall his name. A young fellow—smart as a whip—but only in his late 30s.
That led me to the Dr. Dobb's website, and eventually to an old column I had written back in 1994 for AI Expert, which had been republished in 2008 under the following intro:
9 ), I was genuinely touched to see that the piece had been republished.
Ah, well... back to work. There's a pile of it left to do!
Cheers...
I thought of the magazine because during the course of the day, I had given quite a bit of thought to something my cardiologist said on Monday during my follow-up, about my 2013 hospitalization in Moscow, i.e., given what was recently learned about my heart, he was really surprised I hadn't died back then.
And dying suddenly of heart disease was something that happened to an editor at Dr. Dobb's (or maybe it was a different Miller Freeman publication), and I was trying to recall his name. A young fellow—smart as a whip—but only in his late 30s.
That led me to the Dr. Dobb's website, and eventually to an old column I had written back in 1994 for AI Expert, which had been republished in 2008 under the following intro:
Even back in 1994, Alex Lane was warning programmers not to rely solely on the language-du-jour to solve all their problems. As this nugget from AI Expert illustrates, an open mind has always been a useful tool.I must admit, despite the missing graphic and some squirrely math formatting (e.g., 39 instead of 3
Ah, well... back to work. There's a pile of it left to do!
Cheers...
