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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[author : Al Stevens]

In these exclusive interviews, Al Stevens talks with language pioneers Dennis Ritchie and Bjame Stroustrup about where C and C++ came from and, more importantly, where they might be going.

[author : Scott Robert Ladd]

Dynamically allocated string classes can be used to manipulate all kinds of text data. Scott presents a class he’s developed and has used with everything from data bases to text editors.

[author : William Roome and Narain Gehani]

The researchers who developed Concurrent C present a program that models a multistage, multiserver queuing network, in which events in the simulated system happen at discrete times.

[author : Al Stevens]

Al shares with you why he believes the object-oriented paradigm in general and C++ extensions in particular will make life easier for C programmers.

[author : Ron Winters]

Back in 1988, DDJ published Stewart Nutter’s article on a technique for automatically documenting C programs. In this article, Ron updates Stewart’s program in order to maintain more than 117,000 lines of C source code. Not to be outdone, Kevin Poole updates Ron’s program for use with VAX VMS and Unix.

[author : Robert Starr ]

List management gives you a convenient way of creating randomly accessible linked lists with low-storage overhead. Bob presents a general list management system that will compile and run under operating systems such as MS-DOS and Unix System V.

[author : Bob Edgar]

To make the job of program testing and debugging less frustrating, Bob shows how you can extend the assert() macro so that it becomes a practical debugging tool.

[author : Paul Anderson]

C’s run-time management routines don’t always do the job, particularly when it comes to error checking. Paul discusses how customized memory allocators can be used to overcome this problem.

[author : David Carew]

In the mid-1980s, David wasn’t particularly pleased with C, as expressed in a DDJ Viewpoint column entitled "What’s Wrong With C." After all these years, we asked David if he'd changed his mind and here’s what he had to say.

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