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• This Sucks (Score:1)

  by belg4mit (967) on 2001.10.31 2:10 (#1737) Homepage Journal

  Don't get me wrong, I have no beef with
  them and thankful they picked up TPJ.
  But honestly, I'd much rather have a
  smaller less frequent dedicated rag
  than this. If I want to buy a magazine
  about Perl I want to by a magazine about *Perl*, knowhadeyemean?

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  Were that I say, pancakes?

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  • Re:This Sucks (Score:1)

    by tagg (277)

    I totally agree. I have a SysAdmin subscription, and I have no intention of slagging off SA, but TPJ is (was) in a whole other league. Embedding the odd Perl article in SA won't change that.
    
    I was sincerely hoping for TPJ to continue as a separate mag, since I keep every single issue of TPJ, often referring back to old articles. One reading of SA is usually enough.
    
    If they really wanted to maintain the spirit of TPJ, they should have merged it into Dr. Dobb's Journal instead, matching the technical level
    • Re:This Sucks (Score:1)

      by merlyn (47)

      Embedding the odd Perl article in SA won't change that.

      Hey, a lot more than that. One of my three columns appears every other month there!

      It'll be interesting though, to see what they do with my column, since they'll presumedly have a whole perl "section" in the magazine now. I wonder if I'll have to coordinate my ideas with them first to ensure minimal duplication of topic.

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      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge
  • Re:This Sucks (Score:1)

    by dturley (2378)

    What sucks is I paid money to Earthweb for a subscription right before they stole the subscription monies and ran. I thought perhaps I might get something (other than screwed) when I heard TPJ was coming back. I already subscribe to SysAdmin so I'm still out. Lesson: Don't subscribe to computing mags. I should have learned when the publishers of Byte stole my payment.