''C/C++ Users Journal'' was a

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dedicated to the C and

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s published in the

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from 1985 to 2006. It was one of the last printed magazines to cover specifically this topic (apart from ACCU's journals, which continue as printed magazines). It was based in

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History

The magazine started as a 16-page quarterly newsletter named ''BDS C Users' Group'', and its target was users of Leor Zolman's

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compiler. Robert Ward was the volunteer coordinator of the C Users Group, which had some 150 members. The first issue of ''BDS C Users's Group'' was published on June 15, 1981. In December 1982, the name was changed to ''C User's Group Newsletter''. In April 1985, the first issue of a new quarterly magazine, ''The C Journal,'' was published by InfoPro Systems under the leadership of David Fiedler. Its editor in chief was Rex Jaeschke, a member of the ANSI X3J11 C Language Standard Committee. In 1987/1988, the ''C User's Group Newsletter'' and ''The C Journal'' merged into one journal named ''C Users Journal''. It was published by R & D Publications Inc. eight times a year with P.J. Plauger as editor. The journal had 6800 subscribers and 3000 newsstand readers. In July 1994, the name was changed to ''C/C++ Users Journal''. The magazine was published by

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. Its editor was P.J. Plauger. In November 2001, the ''C/C++ Users Journal'' celebrated its 20th anniversary. It was published monthly at the time, had more than 43,000 readers worldwide, and contained a bimonthly Java supplement called "Java Solutions". The magazine was discontinued in 2006 with the February issue carrying a cover letter from CMP Media informing readers that no subsequent issues would be published. The publishers offered to refund remaining subscriptions or to roll them over to another magazine, ''

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''. The cover letter stated that ''Dr Dobb's Journal'' would now "feature expanded C and C++ coverage". In 2009, ''Dr Dobb's Journal'' was itself discontinued as a standalone publication and merged with ''

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'' magazine. Past articles and source code archives for ''C/C++ Users Journal'' are still available through the ''Dr Dobb's Journal'' website.

References

External links

''GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection'' front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, as well as librariesSource code archives
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