p.6 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.16 LITTLE LANGUAGES, BIG QUESTIONS
[author : Ray Valdes]
Little languages come in all shapes and sizes, Ray looks at their past, present, and future—and challenges you to exercise your language with a small but thorny programming problem.
p.26 YOUR OWN TINY OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGE
[author : David Betz]
Here's a tiny C-like object-oriented language that's an ideal extension language or learning tool.
p.34 ADDING AN EXTENSION LANGUAGE TO YOUR SOFTWARE
[author : Neville Franks]
Hooking little languages to big applications can be tricky, unless you follow the rules.
p.44 PORTING UNIX TO THE 386:THE BASIC KERNEL
[author : William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz]
Multiprogramming is the focus of this month's installment.
p.58 OBJ LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
[author : Thomas Siering]
Effectively using OBJ module libraries is an essential part of software development.
p.64 SOFTWARE PARTITIONING FOR MULTITASKING COMMUNICATION
[author : David McCracken]
Partitioning communications into layers is one technique for increasing performance.
p.148 ONE-WAY HASH FUNCTIONS
[author : Bruce Schneier]
Probabilistic algorithms can be used for general-purpose pattern matching.
EXAMINING ROOM
p.76 ML AND COLORED PETRI NETS FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION
[author : Peter D. Varhol]
Peter uses ML, a Lisp-like little language, to stimulate and investigate multiprocessor architectures.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
p.82 A BRIEF MACRO PACKAGE FOR EDITING BINARY FILE SYSTEMS
[author : James Rodriguez]
The extensibility and programmability of BRIEF lets you tailor the editor to fit your needs.
COLUMNS
p.103 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Dave Winer, designer of a powerful scripting language, shares his thoughts on software development.
p.109 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
D-Flat continued. This month Al covers menus, classes, and the C preprocessor.
p.117 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
[author : Jeff Duntemann]
As long as he's not distracted again, Jeff will continue his discussion of communication interrupts.
p.127 GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
[author : Michael Abrash]
Michael puts the moves on animation using VGA's 256 colors.
p.133 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Michael Swaine]
The Emperor's New Mind, examines computers, minds, and the laws of physics.
FORUM
p.8 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.160 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
p.152 OF INTEREST
[author : Tami Zemel]