June 1991 - A WINDOW ON STRUCTURED LANGUAGES


FEATURES

FORTRAN & GUIS
by John L. Bradberry

Fortran wasn't designed to write drivers but Fortran applications can provide direct window support.

USING THE REAL-TIME CLOCK
by Kenneth Roach

Access your system's real-time clock using homegrown Turbo Pascal time and date functions.

FAST SORTING USING LARGE STRING BUFFERS
by Dale Thorn

This Basic sort routine uses large string buffers and integer variables as pointers to buffers.

WHAT'S NEW WITH MODULA-2?
by K.N. King

All isn't quiet on the Modula-2 front. Our experts brings you up to date.

PORTING UNIX TO THE 386:RESEARCH & THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR
by William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz

Before beginning the kernel port, Bill and Lynne reflect on 386BSD's place in the world of UNIX.

EFFICIENTLY RAISING MATRICES TO AN INTEGER POWER
by Victor Duvanenko

Avoid redundancy--and improve performance--when raising polynomials to integer powers.

TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

RECONCILING UNIX, ADA, & REAL-TIME PROCESSING
by Bill O. Gallmeister

Is POSIX.4 the key to reconciling Unix and Ada for real-time systems?

UNIX, ADA, AND REAL-TIME - A FORTH MULTITASKER
by Jack J. Woehr

This Forth multitasker falls between "medium weight" and "heavyweight" multitasking and provides preemption without additional overhead.

EXAMINING ROOM

TAKING UP RESIDENCE WITH CODERUNNER
by R. Bradley Andrews

TSRs are no longer a chore when you use tools like Coderunner.

PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH

CELESTIAL PROGRAMMING WITH TURBO PASCAL
by Lars Frid-Nielsen and Alex Lane

Capture planetary images using a CCD camera, a frame grabber, and Turbo Pascal.

COLUMNS

PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
by Michael Swaine

Michael reports on The First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy.

C PROGRAMMING
by Al Stevens

This month's D-Flat installment manages application configuration and window classes.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
by Jeff Duntemann

Jeff takes a look at Turbo Pascal for Windows before moving on to dissecting UART registers.

GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
by Michael Abrash

Complex polygons are simpler than you probably think.

PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
by Ray Duncan

Pearls of wisdom about Jon Bentley's best programming books.

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL
by Jonathan Erickson

LETTERS
by you

SWAINE'S FLAMES
by Michael Swaine

PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES

OF INTEREST
by Tami Zemel


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