EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
GENERIC PROGRAMMING AND THE C++ STL
[author : Dan Zigmond]
To illustrate how you can use the C++ Standard Template Library, Dan presents a filter program called "Lexicon" that takes ASCII text and outputs an alphabetized list of all the unique words in that text, ignoring case and punctuation.
STANDARD C: AN UPDATE
[author : Rex Jaeschke]
Rex, chair of the X3J11 committee on ANSI C, reports on recent developments concerning the C language.
A POOLING MEMORY MANAGER FOR C++
[author : Kirit Saelensminde]
While building a high-performance, object-oriented raytracer, Kirit discovered that C++ memory allocation isn't all it should be. Here's his alternative.
IMPLEMENTING BIT VECTORS IN C
[author : James Blustein]
Bit vectors provide an efficient means of implementing arrays of Boolean values. James originally implemented bit vectors to hash document signatures and analyze statistics.
ALPHA BLENDING GRAPHIC IMAGES
[author : Tim Wittenburg]
Alpha blending (sometimes called "image compositing") lets you combine two or more images so smoothly that people can't tell that the resulting image is a composite.
JAVA AND INTERNET PROGRAMMING
[author : Arthur van Hoff]
Java, a language designed for Internet development, is an object-oriented, multithreaded, portable, dynamic language that's similar to C, yet simpler than C++.
JPEG-LIKE IMAGE COMPRESSION, PART 2
[author : Craig A. Lindley]
In this month's installment of his two-part article, Craig describes how the image-compression technique he calls "CAL" differs from JPEG. He then presents the C++ classes on which CAL is built.
THE C++ STANDARD LIBRARY
[author : Michael J. Vilot]
After five years, the ANSI and ISO C++ committees have finally released their first official document. Michael examines the most commonly used components of the proposed C++ Standard Library: iostreams, strings, and some of the containers, iterators, and algorithms included in the STL.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
68HC05-BASED SYSTEM DESIGN
[author : Willard J. Dickerson]
From a driver's perspective, antilock brake systems prevent car wheels from locking. From an embedded-system designer's viewpoint, they are complex control applications requiring sensors, software, and microcontrollers such as the Motorola 68HC05B6.
NETWORKED SYSTEMS
IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS
[author : Ernest N. Prabhakar]
Ernest uses NeXT's PDO and Objective-C to implement a simple client-server application that packages a legacy application into an interoperable object and its client.
EXAMINING ROOM
EXAMINING SYMANTEC C++ 7.0
[author : Ira Rodens]
Among other features, this recent incarnation of Symantec C++ sports a visual programming environment, class and hierarchy editors, distributed build tools, and support for templates, exceptions, and run-time type identification. Compiler author Walter Bright adds tips and techniques for optimizing C++ code.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
DEVELOPING C++ NLMs
[author : W. Dale Cave]
NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) are 32-bit utilities that dynamically link into NetWare. Dale examines the complexity of writing NLMs in C++, then presents DSBROWSE, a utility that lets you view (or "walk") the NetWare Directory Services tree.
COLUMNS
PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael walks the Cyberdog as he reflects on this year's Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference and Apple's Internet strategy.
C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
GNU C++ from the Free Software Foundation is part of a set of programming tools and utilities available from many online locations and several commercial CD-ROMs. After working with the compiler, Al decides this toolset is hard to beat—if you need a C++ compiler that's freely distributable and royalty-free.
ALGORITHM ALLEY
[author : Bruce Schneier]
In this month's column, Peter Pearson presents a fascinating look at how biochemical techniques can be applied to classical computer problems such as combinatorial optimization.
PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Lynne Greer Jolitz]
When you get on the net, who can you trust? Lynne examines several new books that address this question: Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World, by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Michael Speciner; E-Mail Security, by Bruce Schneier; Network Security, by Steven Shaffer and Alan Simon; and Network Security: How to Plan for It and Achieve It, by Richard H. Baker.
FORUM
LETTERS
[author : you]
SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
OF INTEREST
[author : Monica E. Berg]