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Filename: dr-dobbs-1990.bib
Version: 3.14
Date: 10 June 2016
Time: 11:00:12 MDT
Checksum: 59001 57205 217801 2189954 [CRC-16 words lines bytes]
This is a bibliography of publications in Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer (CODEN DDJOEB, ISSN 1044-789X) (formerly: Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia), and its short-lived 8-page newsletter supplement, Dr. Dobb's Developer Update (ISSN 1079-8595, no CODEN), published by Miller Freeman.
This file covers the decade 1990--1999. The companion files dr-dobbs-19*.bib and dr-dobbs-20*.bib cover other decades.
From version 2.00 of this file, article coverage should be complete from 1982--date, although individual entries may have missing information.
At version 3.14, the year coverage looked like this:
1990 ( 180) 1994 ( 309) 1998 ( 240)
1991 ( 230) 1995 ( 316) 1999 ( 220)
1992 ( 254) 1996 ( 292)
1993 ( 262) 1997 ( 243)
Article: 2541
Book: 5
Total entries: 2546
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Dr. Dobb's Journal has recently issued CD ROMs with the articles and software from 1988--1997, and also offers subject-specialized CD ROMs; see http://www.ddj.com/cdrom for ordering details.
This bibliography has been collected from bibliographies in the author's personal files, from the OCLC Contents1st database, from the Compendex databases (1980--1996), from the IEEE INSPEC CD-ROM database (1989--Sept 1996), and from the computer science bibliography collection on ftp.ira.uka.de in /pub/bibliography to which many people of have contributed. The snapshot of this collection was taken on 5-May-1994, and it consists of 441 BibTeX files, 2,672,675 lines, 205,289 entries, and 6,375 <at>String{} abbreviations, occupying 94.8MB of disk space.
Numerous errors in the sources noted above have been corrected. Spelling has been verified with the UNIX spell and GNU ispell programs using the exception dictionary stored in the companion file with extension .sok.
Dr. Dobbs Journal averages about 17 articles per issue, 12 issues per year, with 21 volumes to the end of 1996, for an estimated total of about 4300 articles for 1976--1996, so coverage at version 2.13 is about 77%.
At version 1.00, there were 934 entries, for about 19% coverage, mostly from 1990--1996, thanks to the addition of a heavily-edited and corrected conversion of the results of a search in the OCLC Contents1st database, which covers this journal only for the years 1990--date. Regrettably, this database does not record final page numbers of journal articles, so there are many page ranges of the form 123--?? in this bibliography.
At version 1.09 of this bibliography, there
were 1072 entries. I then discovered the
journal's author index on the World-Wide Web
at the location
http://www.ddj.com/index/author/index.htm.
That index consists of about 1200 very small
HTML files, one for each of the unique author
names. It covers only journal issues
1982--date, with no material at all for the
years 1976--1981 (journal volumes 1--6).
Software was therefore written to fetch and convert that rather rough, and error-ridden, material into BibTeX entries. This produced another 2008 bibliography entries, so the version number of this file was increased to 2.00. The journal author index does not record any page numbers at all, just the author, title, month and year. Sadly, author order is not recorded: an article by Smith and Jones appears under both names, with no indication of which of them is the principal author. Consequently, there are still 800+ entries with no page number information at all (indicated by a value of ??--??), about 2170 with missing final page numbers, and only about 70 with complete page number data. Because this journal carries advertising, articles are usually interspersed with commercial pages. Also, articles are usually interleaved, so page data is usually a list of several individual numbers and number ranges.
In order to resolve the author ordering problem, multiple-author articles were checked against the version 1.09 bibliography data, against the UnCover and OCLC library databases, and as a last resort, against individual back issues in my personal library. After this checking, about 60 entries remain with probable errors in author order or other publication information; they are readily identified by the presence of an xxnote keyword.
In the case of regular columns and editorials, the title from the author index is often rather sparse, even though the journal issue carried more descriptive information as part of an extended title.
Abstract text below from the UnCover database corresponds to the short article summary given in the journal tables of contents.
BibTeX citation tags are uniformly chosen as name:year:abbrev, where name is the family name of the first author or editor, year is a 4-digit number, and abbrev is a 3-letter condensation of important title words. Citation tags were automatically generated by software developed for the BibNet Project.
In this bibliography, entries are sorted in publication order, using bibsort -byvolume.
The checksum field above contains a CRC-16 checksum as the first value, followed by the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc (word count) utility output of lines, words, and characters. This is produced by Robert Solovay's checksum utility.