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The Perl Journal Bought by CMP

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the celebrate-good-times-come-on dept.

pudge (Slashcode wrangler, MacPerl maintainer, and use.perl editor) wrote in to tell us that The Perl Journal has been bought by CMP. This of course ends the ongoing struggles with Earthweb that has resulted in many subscribers (including me) going without what is one of the best technical journals being published today. CMP of course publishes several other good journals including Dr. Dobbs. Besides Jon Orwant (who will continue as Senior Contributing Editor) nobody is happier to see TPJ return then me!

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  1. Re:Best part about CMP by Nurgster · · Score: 5

    I found most of their publications are almost impossible to obtain outside the US, and they definately don't give them away to non-US people (except at trade shows).

    What I'd do to be able to pop down my local shop any buy Dr Dobbs or even better, Game Developer Magazine...

    --
    "Faith is the last resort of a desperate man" - Me
  2. Re:That's a very good news by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5
    TPJ has only 2-3 pages of blah-blah and news of the world. The rest is 100% listings.

    This is one of the reasons the TPJ financial difficulties. They had to invest large amounts of money in custom typesetting machines that were outfitted with extra $ and @ characters.