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I’ve updated the broken link, it now links to a version of the page that is being hosted by an amateur archivist. (This was done after looking for a surviving link via web.archive).

Much later I found this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20071216020031/http://www.ddj.com/184407970?pgno=5 however I've kept the link to https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/ as it's more navigable than the web archive.

Since the journal doesn’t exist there are 4 options for the second link.

  1. Link the wiki page
  2. Link the base url of the archive
  3. Remove it.
  4. Linking something from web.archive

I went with 3.


Here’s a post by the archivist on the EOL of DDJ: https://jacobfilipp.com/thedoctor/

Another solution is removing the “See Also” block completely.


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The wayback machine article works, but the code formatting is quite poor.

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Usually archive.org link is better. In this case, I reviewed the archived link and it seems to be better.

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Thanks @s3bw for the PR, and @orsenthil for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14.
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