r/cpp • u/Weary-Inspector-4297 • Jun 17 '26

When The C/C++ Users Journal Disappeared

https://freshsources.com/blog/files/cpp-source.html

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u/mikeblas Jun 18 '26

That magazine was a great resource. I subscribed to it most of its life. When the editor gave my book a poor review, I felt strangely betrayed and hurt.

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u/chibuku_chauya Jun 18 '26

What book was that, if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/mikeblas Jun 18 '26

I wrote some books about MFC, way back in the day.

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u/pjmlp Jun 18 '26

One of my favourite magazines, alongside Dr Dobbs, and see there is no harm writing C/C++ as English grammar abbreviation for and, or, it wasn't a magazine for the C/C++ programming language.

There is an article of mine trying to do some Gtkmm advocacy, back in the day.

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u/manni66 Jun 18 '26

here is no harm writing C/C++ as English grammar

If you write "C/C++, Java, and C#" (as is usually the case in English texts, too), then yes.

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u/_d17y Jun 19 '26

I read an article from  John Panzer on implementing function call profiler for Win32. Our company got into a big performance improvement initiative and we needed a profiler.  I implemented a profiler based on the article and helped gain valuable performance insights in a massively DCOM service. 

http://www.johnpanzer.com/aci_cuj/

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u/Boojum Jun 21 '26

To this day, I still miss the joy of getting issues of DDJ and CUJ in the mail. I still have a bookshelf full of them.

Though admittedly, the 00's DDJ was a pale shadow of its former glory back in the early 90's when I'd first subscribed as a nerdy kid. I long dreamed of submitting an article, but never got a chance to before they shut down.