Someone might remember the old magazine "Computer Language" published until the 90s from the same editor of "Doctor Dobb's Journal".
I've always found it very ispirational and I still have some issue in my bookshelf.
Does anyone know if there's an archive of the old articles somewhere? I remember there was a CD with several issues digitized but I've found no mention of it on the CMP website.
I discovered that "Computer Language" issues where included in the first "Software Development" CD but, unfortunately, that CD is not available form CMP.
Anyway, I've noticed some of the articles are available through the "Dr Dobb's Portal". For example the article "Sharing secrets among Friends" that originally appeared on CL in April 1992.
I've also found a complete bibliography of the articles hosted by the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Utah.
The P.J. Plauger "Programming on Purpose" column has been collected in two books.
Let's hope the best material has survived the death of the magazine...
P.S. for those who downvoted this question, try to get an old issue of this magazine and you'll see how valuable and still actual the published material is.
I have a few copies of CL from 1986 or so. I've noticed that Google books have scanned in a few issues, but that is pointless because all you get is a few word snippet with no way to read the actual articles.
For US residents Amazon.com lists three volumes of "Best of Computer Language" available as PDF downloads at under $5 each: Testing and Debugging; Algorithms; A Stan Kelly-Bootle Reader.
Martin
I was the Editor of Computer Language from 1989-1994. I have a complete collection but no copyright. Ditto with AI Expert. Since the current copyright owners seem to at least occasionally be creating new products (putting specific articles online, collecting them into "Best Of..." collections, etc.), I am pessimistic about any hope of getting the contents online. Which is a double shame, because I suspect that even the current copyright holders don't have a complete collection.
I'm writing my bachelor's thesis on phonetic algorithms and am in dire need of an article pubished in Computer Language Magazine Dec. 1990. Since it does not seem to be available on the internet I wanted to ask, if anyone could please help me!???
The articel I'm searching for is "hanging on the metaphone".