jr@foros1.UUCP (John Rogers) (04/27/84)
Table of Contents - Dr. Dobb's Journal - May-84 (#91) Editorial by Mike Swaine [DDJ's new Editor-in-chief] Announcement of Dr. Dobb's Fifth-Generation Programming Competition [with a $1000 reward] Articles: Introduction to Modula-2 for Pascal Programmers, by Hugh McLarty and David Smith Converting Fig-Forth to Forth-83, by Ray Duncan Sixth Generation Computers, by Richard Grigonis [discusses possible technology improvements; heavy on the physics] A new Library for Small-C, by James Hendrix and Ernest Payne [This looks pretty good. The first part of the source code is being published this month. It's all part of Small-C v2.1] The Accent Finder, by Eddy Vasile [for Spanish, written in Pascal] Solutions to Quirks in dBASE-II, by Gene Head Columns: Dr. Dobb's Clinic, by D. E. Cortesi (optimizing compilers, Prolog, labels in column one in RMAC, keyboard handling in MS-DOS 2.0, reasons NOT to poll the keyboard) CP/M Exchange, by Robert Blum [The real reason for IRD: in PIP... It's the Intel/Icom/Intellec paper tape reader, and has IN and OUT instructions hard coded for port 1. Also discusses losing a keyboard character during warmboot, and the INP: and OUT: devices in PIP.] Submitted by your humble reviewer, -- JR (John Rogers) ...ihnp4!fortune!foros1!jr also fortune!jr and proper!jr