alt.hn

4/5/2026 at 12:37:57 AM

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

 https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6

by kristianp

4/9/2026 at 8:47:43 AM

Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader.

- The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset.

- The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal

- The evolution of Python and related adoption

- Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA

- The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day

- The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started

- A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn't only UNIX clones and Windows.

by pjmlp

4/9/2026 at 10:36:48 AM

Catplus?

Edit: Yandex can search for it! But doesn't seem to find anything relevant.

(It also hates such queries and will force you to wait 2 minutes for a captcha to load.. but you get the results after a long wait! As our forefathers once did!)

I did find C@ and C@++ though.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B

by andai

4/9/2026 at 8:54:55 AM

A lot of very accessible algorithm articles too. I still remember the article on ternary trees.

by vidarh

4/9/2026 at 9:53:05 AM

> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays)

I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)

by raverbashing

4/9/2026 at 8:20:40 AM

Don't forget to donate to archive.org while at it.

The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.

by throwa356262

4/9/2026 at 8:31:15 AM

Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.

by raybb

4/9/2026 at 9:02:33 AM

What kind of volunteering is needed?

by throwa356262

4/9/2026 at 9:03:29 AM

Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?

by tmountain

4/9/2026 at 10:32:58 AM

I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc

by YesThatTom2

4/9/2026 at 9:25:58 AM

Could it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I've seen it on some other sites.

by trinix912

4/9/2026 at 8:53:13 AM

And if you're a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !

by damnitbuilds

4/9/2026 at 9:01:33 AM

Working on it, only two more commas to go :)

I wonder if r/datahorde folks can be of any help here.

by throwa356262

4/9/2026 at 8:45:47 AM

I miss dr dobb

by niemandhier