Much more interesting though, is the special DDJ issue about C++ successor languages in 1993, already 33 years ago it as a subject relevant enough to warrant a full issue dedicated to it.
I still have stacks of DDJ, C/C++ Users Journal, SysAdmin, and The Perl Journal issues in my library. They are right beside some O'Reilly books from the same era I shant part from anytime soon.
> Look ma, my article!
My guess is that you have implemented a C++ standard library "back in the day." If so, I do not have one of your books but do have what I call "the I/O streams black book"[0]. The C++ I/O streams library was very much underrated IMHO.
I recently noticed an Al Williams who is a writer on hackaday [1]. Turns out he was a regular contributor to DDJ. Not to be confused with Al Stevens who wrote the C Programming column for years.
Much more interesting though, is the special DDJ issue about C++ successor languages in 1993, already 33 years ago it as a subject relevant enough to warrant a full issue dedicated to it.
"Special issue, Beyond C++"
https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1993/9310/9310t...
For all the complaints regarding language names one cannot search for, AT&T wins with C+@, yep that was the name.
https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1993/9310/9310b...
The year thereafter, Perl and TCL were still considered alternative languages, before the Web really took off.
https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1994/9415/9415t...
Or how safety in systems programming is being discussed in the Modula-3 and Oberon articles.
I still have stacks of DDJ, C/C++ Users Journal, SysAdmin, and The Perl Journal issues in my library. They are right beside some O'Reilly books from the same era I shant part from anytime soon.
> Look ma, my article!
My guess is that you have implemented a C++ standard library "back in the day." If so, I do not have one of your books but do have what I call "the I/O streams black book"[0]. The C++ I/O streams library was very much underrated IMHO.
0 - https://www.amazon.com/Standard-IOStreams-Locales-Programmer...
It's also fun just to look at the article titles to see what the zeitgeist of the era was for a given time period.
I recently noticed an Al Williams who is a writer on hackaday [1]. Turns out he was a regular contributor to DDJ. Not to be confused with Al Stevens who wrote the C Programming column for years.
The search on the page seems to be broken at the moment, but the one on https://jacobfilipp.com/thedoctor-search/ still functions.
[1] https://hackaday.com/author/wd5gnr1/
Some related discussion from a few months ago:
Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645010