The Small-C compiler. Davis, P. Designing for International Users, in S. Ashlund, K. Mullet, A. Henderson, E. White eds. Dobb ' s Journal , March Rivest, A. Software drives those systems.
Massive investments of time and resources are made in developing and implementing these systems. Maintenance is inevitable. It is hard and costly. Considerable resources are required to keep the systems active and dependable. We cannot maintain software unless maintainability characters are built into the products and processes. There is an urgent need to reinforce software development practices based on quality and reliability principles. Though maintenance is a mini development lifecycle, it has its own problems.
Maintenance issues need corresponding tools and techniques to address them. A new library for Small-C. Small-Mac: an Assembler for Small-C. P: a Small-C preprocessor. Getargs: a command-line argument processor. Cross-reference generator in C: a program conversion aid. CC: a driver for Small-C. Small-tools: programs for text processing. Optimizing strings in C. Verity Stob is the comedienne of the programming world.
The journal was originally intended to be a three-issue xerographed publication. Titled Dr. Dobb's was a contraction of Dennis and Bob. It was at a time when memory was very expensive, so compact coding was important. Microcomputer hobbyists needed to avoid using too many bytes of memory — avoiding overbyte. After the first photocopies were mailed to those who had sent stamped addressed envelopes, PCC was flooded with requests that the publication become an ongoing periodical devoted to general microcomputer software.
PCC agreed, and hired Jim Warren as its first editor. He immediately changed the title to Dr. Jim Warren was DDJ's editor for only about a year and a half.
While he went on to make a splash with his series of West Coast Computer Faires, subsequent DDJ editors like Marlin Ouverson, Hank Harrison, Michael Swaine and Jonathan Erickson appear to have focused on the journalistic and social aspects of the young but growing microcomputer industry.
The newsletter's content was originally pure enthusiast material. Initial interest circled around the Tiny BASIC interpreter, but Warren broadened that to include a variety of other programming topics, as well as a strong consumer bias, especially needed in the chaotic early days of microcomputing.
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