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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[author : Levi Thomas and Nick Turner]

The choice of a text editor is based partly on "hard" pragmatic requirements and partly on more subjective considerations, such as personal tastes and biases. In this month's cover story, DDJ talks to some programmers about the agony and the ecstasy of searching for the perfect text editor.

[author : Mark S. Ackerman]

Mark gives us a peek into the magician's hat. He describes some killer hacks designed to squeeze that last byte and/or machine cycle out of an assembly-language program.

[author : Edwin T. Floyd]

Edwin explains, demonstrates, and evaluates four different hashing algorithms.

[author : Allen Holub]

The first in a series of installments on nr—Allen's version of the Unix formatting utility, nroff. This month he discusses symbol table maintenance with hashing functions, expression analysis, and a method for printing Roman numerals.

[author : Ray Duncan]

A look at the MS-DOS STACK command, techniques for writing memory-resident programs, and books for MS-DOS programmers.

[author : Ernest R. Tello]

Our new columnist starts things off with some AI history, philosophy, and recommended reading.

[author : Namir Clement Shammas]

Namir discusses program translation.

[author : Nick Turner]

[author : you]

[author : Mike Suman]

[author : Michael Swaine]

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