May 1988 - DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS

ARTICLES

DEVELOPING FOR THE USER

by Robert Carr
Developing good software is more than just programming and debugging. Carr's eight axioms of successful software delivery tell you the rest of the story.

HANDLING IMAGE FILES WITH TIFF

by Anthony Meadow, Rocky Offner, and Michael Budiansky
If you are writing an application that works with bitmapped images, consider TIFF....

VIRTUAL ARRAY IN C

by Mark Tichenor
Data arrays need not be limited

by available memory. Mark uses virtual arrays with background file management to overcome this problem.

REVIEWS

EXAMINING ROOM

coordinated by Ron Copeland
Products examined from the programmer's perspective. This month's offering include PC/Forms tested in C, Soft-ICE, which provides the capabilities of an in-circuit emulator via software, and DE, a "stretched" version of the standard EMAC editor.

COLUMNS

C CHEST

by Allen Holub
Allen discusses the benefits of compiling to an intermediate language (postfix)--developing for multiple hardware platforms, merging compiler output, and eliminating redundant code.

TO THE MACS

by Stan Krute
Stan takes a field trip to the recent MacWorld Expo. He also has a wrap-up of the Scouting Toolkit.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING

by Kent Porter
With the help of a special model file--which Kent developed specifically for this exercise--he will demonstrate how to write a Pascal program that reads non-Pascal files.

PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS

by Michael Swaine
This is the premier of a new column: Parallel Processing, Object-Oriented Programming, and a reading list. Enjoy!

FORUM

EDITORIAL

by Jonathan Erickson

RUNNING LIGHT

by Tyler Sperry

ARCHIVES

LETTERS

by you

SWAINE'S FLAMES

by Michael Swaine

PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES

OF INTEREST

brief product descriptions