The Dr Dobb's Journal of June 2000 is, by title, devoted
to object-oriented programming.  Yet it has no mention of
either Smalltalk or Eiffel in it.  I wrote a letter to
Dobb's editors, posted for inspection at

   http://algebraist.com/ddj20000504ltr.htm

and received the following replies, in order.  The second
came after I asked for permission to post these to
comp.lang.smalltalk and other venues.

I would be happy to help with this little advertising
project in any way I can.  I don't have any sexy
applications to show or things to write about.  I'm sure
there are folks in these groups who do and can, and, in
fact, probably have papers ready to go.

Of course anyone can approach the editors directly and
probably will.  But I wonder if it might not be nice to have
some kind of coordinated group of papers, too. Surely it
would make sense to have something like that for Squeak. And
I bet it would make sense to have something like that for
Dolphin/VisualAge/VisualWorks ("Not your father's
Smalltalk", etc).  It seems to me that Mr Erickson implies
Dobb's has a hunger for technical articles and material
which the Smalltalk community could well satisfy and thus
provide it with a dose of excellent exposure to a
sophisticated audience.

Thoughts?

 --jt

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From:  editors <editors at ddj.com>

Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:12:59 -0500
To:   "demiourgos at smalltalk.org" <demiourgos at smalltalk.org>
Subject:  Re: Letter about "Volume 25, Issue 6, June 2000:
          Object-OrientedSoftware"

jt,
Thanks for your most interesting note. As you are aware, Dr.
Dobb's Journal has long been a supporter of Effiel and (even
longer) Smalltalk. We were one of the first publications to
cover these wonderful languages and have continued to cover
them for many years. Yes, you are correct in stating that it
left a gap in our coverage of OO to not include an article
on one or both of these languages. Alas, we only have so
much room. However, we hope to cover them in an upcoming
issue which will focus on programming languages. If you have
any article ideas, we'd welcome the opportunity to work with
you.

Thanks again,
Jon Erickson
Dr. Dobb's Journal

From: DDJ Editorial Staff <editors at ddj.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:38:41 -0400 (EDT)
To:   demiourgos at smalltalk.org
Subject: Re: Letter about "Volume 25, Issue 6, June 2000:
Object-OrientedSoftware"

JT,
Sure, feel free to post my comments. Please add that we are
always looking for good technical articles on these and
similar subjects. Thanks for the opportunity.
Jon

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