# Dr. Dobb's Journal has passed away. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525 "2015-01-11T05:48:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/1 "2015-01-11T05:48:28Z")
Dr. Dobb’s Journal has [passed away](http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-dobbs/240169421). Required reading back in the day. Some may remember. Recollections? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/2 "2015-01-11T12:26:10Z")
Looking for shared experiences? Probably better suited to IMHO rather than General Questions. Moved. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/3 "2015-01-11T14:25:36Z")
How sad. I read such great stuff there, and I think they had a CD collection out that I liked. As I remember they had some splendid writing about FORTH when I was into that. Perhaps Dr Dobbs was to programming what Byte was to computers in general… ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/4 "2015-01-11T15:23:56Z")
“Running without overbyte” The good doctor was a driving force in the early days of microcomputer software, and later a driving force in the development of OO languages. It’s survival to this point is remarkable enough. Sometime in the early 80s my subscription to Dr. Dobbs got converted into a subscription for People’s Computers. After several failed attempts to get that corrected I cancelled the subscription. Someone called me to ask why and I told them that even though I enjoyed Fortran Man I still wanted to get Dr. Dobbs. His response was “Damn! Another one. I’ll take care of that for you.” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/5 "2015-01-11T15:24:21Z")
Cauzin softstrip reader. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/6 "2015-01-11T17:01:59Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Cauzin softstrip reader. That is all. I have one… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/7 "2015-01-11T21:56:30Z")
Byte tried to push that for about a week, but it never caught on. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/8 "2015-01-12T02:26:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > “Running without overbyte” > > The good doctor was a driving force in the early days of microcomputer software, and later a driving force in the development of OO languages. It’s survival to this point is remarkable enough. > > Sometime in the early 80s my subscription to Dr. Dobbs got converted into a subscription for People’s Computers. After several failed attempts to get that corrected I cancelled the subscription. Someone called me to ask why and I told them that even though I enjoyed Fortran Man I still wanted to get Dr. Dobbs. His response was “Damn! Another one. I’ll take care of that for you.” Correction: “Running **light** without overbyte”. I too loved that journal. I was also programming in FORTH in those days. I still consider it the best computer language ever created, but it was destroyed by the purists who controlled the standard and didn’t allow floating point (or even fixed point–integer arithmetic only) or strings. The most complicated thing I ever did was a tex interpretor. It didn’t do what tex did, but it produced reasonable output if you had the same printer I did. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-dobbs-journal-has-passed-away/709525/9 "2015-01-12T11:46:07Z")
Bummer. We used to get it at work. Hoping Michael Swaine can still afford the upkeep of stately Swaine Manor… Brian