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• DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  DDJ has focussed on .net and Java for so long it has forgotten that anything else exists. Of course this might have something to do with all those tool and library vendors that pay for advertising in the magazine.

  Even if the advertisers are almost exclusively for .net and java stuff they could make an effort to include or acknowledge perl - I remember they managed to forget to include perl in one article about jobs (a piece that would be too trivial to deserve an article if done in perl).

  Perhaps you cou

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:1)

    by sth_2 (2921)

    I had a subscription for a year, but I cancelled it. They picked me to fill out this survey, on a 3.5 floppy. So I filled out. I wrote that I was cancelling the subscription because I found 1 out 3 issues somewhat useful/interesting. I indicated that if I was a visual .net c# vb java programmer (something like that), I would keep the subscription. I also added that the fact that I am taking this survey on a windows box, because that is the only thing it will run on is more fuel for the fire. I did get
    • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:2)

      by brian_d_foy (44)

      As I'm learning in a the magazine biz, free subscriptions are a way to get ad dollars. It's how many people get the magazine, not how many people pay for it.
      • Re:DDJ tends to pretend that perl doesn't exist (Score:1)

        by sth_2 (2921) on 2004.10.21 16:00 (#35439)

        I figured that was the case, with Soooooo many free magazines out there.
          Well as far as TPR is concerned I am very happy to pay for it. Getting the first printed issue in the mail was awesome, I really missed the printed TPJ.
        Not the supplements, the original ones. I look forward to many more.

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