#Edito

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[author : Hugh McLarty and David Smith]

Modula-2, Niklaus Wirth's latest language, has been compared to Pascal and even Ada. Many programmers may have been eyeing this successor to Pascal. This article compares features of the two languages, giving Pascal programmers an idea of what to expect in the Modula environment.

[author : Ray Duncan]

In mid- 1983 the Forth Standards Team adopted a new Forth standard, Forth-83. While this new standard provides a number of improvements, its incompatibilities with older versions of Forth can cause problems when trying to run old programs. The author (on brief sabbatical from his 16-bit Software Toolbox) discusses how to convert old Forth programs to Forth-83, including a checklist of things to watch for and a summary of the 83-Standard Forth vocabulary changes.

[author : Richard Grigonis]

The author has addressed Fifth Generation topics in previous issues of Dr. Dobb's Journal (December 1982 and August 1983). Now he turns to even more distant speculations by describing how the problem of increasing computational speed could be approached in the Sixth Generation.

[author : James Hendrix and Ernest Payne]

In December 1982 and January 1983 we published James Hendrix's version 2.0 of the Small-C compiler, which contained a relatively meager library. This month we present a more sophisticated library incorporating several new Unix-like features, along with code that upgrades the compiler to version 2.1. Because of the size, the last part of Listing Two will be continued next month.

[author : Eddy Vasile]

Many of us rely on sound and intuition for things like proper syllabic division of words, but computers must use more defined methods. Written as an exercise in the use of sets in Pascal, this program breaks Spanish words into syllables and determines where accents are to be placed.

[author : Gene Head]

While dBASE II is very powerful, it does have some shortcomings. This is the first of several articles dealing with fixes to some of its quirks. Here the author shows how to add an INKEY function, allowing interruption of a long listing or printout without aborting the program entirely.

Optimizing Compilers; Timeless Language (Prolog); Prissy Program?; I Tell You Three Times; Computer Citizenship

IRD: No Longer A Mystery; CP/M Tidbits; OUT: and INP: - Making Them Work