Your membership fee for the ACM gets you essentially two things. The big thing it gets you is the privilege of paying more money for SIG membership and access to the ACM digital library. The other thing it gets you is a subscription to Communications of the ACM, which is perfectly awful.

I joined because I wanted the CACM subscription, but after a year I let it drop, because it has negative value.

The digital library subscription might be nice, but not for the amount of money it would cost---I think about $1160 per year once you figure in all the fees. Similarly, I might like to be a member of SIGPLAN, but again it would end up costing a lot more than I am willing to pay.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

In reply to Re: ACM, anyone? by Dominus
in thread ACM, anyone? by t'mo

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