Dr Dobbs And C/C++ Users Journal CD Archive - Usefulness/Value To Linux Programmers?

[Jason]

Hello,

I am looking at buying the Dr Dobbs and C/C++ Users Journal CD Archive. I
primary develop for the GNU/Linux platform. I am wondering if others here
have used these CDs or if anyone can comment as to the value to GNU/Linux
only programmers.

Basically, what is the ratio to Windows-based articles/code versus
Linux/Unix-based articles/code? I realize that many of the Windows-based
articles could be ported to GNU/Linux, but I'd rather not have to mess
with that (or see Windows everywhere in the article). And I realize that
Windows is the dominant platform, so please be gentle...

Look forward to your comments/experiences with these CDs.

Thanks,

Jason

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 16 May 2004 02:02:39 GMT) it happened Jason

Post by Jason
Hello,
I am looking at buying the Dr Dobbs and C/C++ Users Journal CD Archive. I
primary develop for the GNU/Linux platform. I am wondering if others here
have used these CDs or if anyone can comment as to the value to GNU/Linux
only programmers.
Basically, what is the ratio to Windows-based articles/code versus
Linux/Unix-based articles/code? I realize that many of the Windows-based
articles could be ported to GNU/Linux, but I'd rather not have to mess
with that (or see Windows everywhere in the article). And I realize that
Windows is the dominant platform, so please be gentle...
Look forward to your comments/experiences with these CDs.
Thanks,
Jason

I do not question the quality of some articles in DrDobss, I did read it
for many years.
But these days a google search on the internet will find you so much code
and examples, plus all the open source Linux projects, that you will likely
not need to go and buy stuff.
More useful is to read libc.info on your linux box.
And search for whatever you need.. or ask in one of the sci newsgroups.
It is (in my case) usually not about programming, but what you are trying
to write a program for, where the research starts.
JP

[Christopher Browne]

Post by Jason
I am looking at buying the Dr Dobbs and C/C++ Users Journal CD Archive. I
primary develop for the GNU/Linux platform. I am wondering if others here
have used these CDs or if anyone can comment as to the value to GNU/Linux
only programmers.
Basically, what is the ratio to Windows-based articles/code versus
Linux/Unix-based articles/code? I realize that many of the Windows-based
articles could be ported to GNU/Linux, but I'd rather not have to mess
with that (or see Windows everywhere in the article). And I realize that
Windows is the dominant platform, so please be gentle...
Look forward to your comments/experiences with these CDs.

The bigger issue is of whether they have licenses compatible with your
needs.

If you look for libraries specifically available for your favorite
distribution of Linux (particularly if that be something like Debian),
you'll find _enormous_ amounts of useful code with well-documented
licenses that do not require you to do any installation work to get
them working.

Being able to do "apt-get install libwhatever-dev" and get something
requiring no particular 'integration' effort seems to me to be the
"simpler" approach.

Why struggle to do systems integration work to perhaps port code when
plenty of libraries are already trivially available?