April 1993
Volume 11 Number 4
USER INTERFACES
A Portable User Interface Using curses
By Matt Weisfeld
Tried to write portable windowing
code and got foiled again? Maybe an old standby can provide
the functionality you need.
A Prompting Function
By Dale A. Panattoni
Here's a simple function that
takes much of the worry out of getting clean input data.
FEATURES
Mapping Functions for Repetitive Structures
By Steven K. Graham
Use a mapping function to apply
other functions repeatedly.
A Natural Language Processor
By Russell Suereth
You can give a good appearance of
language comprehension with just a little parsing logic.
Mixed Numbers in C
By P.J. LaBrocca
Fractions are sometimes better
manipulated as ratios of prime factors.
COLUMNS
Standard C: Formal Changes to C
P. J. Plauger
On the Networks: It's Back?
Sydney S. Weinstein
Questions & Answers: Message Catalogs
Kenneth Pugh
Code Capsules: Sorting with qsort
Chuck Allison
USER REPORT
Convert C Programs into Multithreaded Applications
Comments by Victor R. Volkman
BOOK REVIEW
C++ Programming Style
Reviewed by Steve Halladay