October 1991 - OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

FEATURES

A MINIMAL OBJECT-ORIENTED DEBUGGER FOR C++ by William M. Miller

This portable symbolic debugger lets you trace execution, display object values, and more.

PROPOSING A C++ STRING CLASS STANDARD by Steve Teale

As C++ moves through the ANSI process, String classes like this may become the standard.

OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT by Richard Harter

The object-oriented model addresses the limitations of the difference model.

THE OBJECT D'ART by Michael Floyd

DDJ's senior technical editor reports on the recently-held TOOLS conference.

PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE BASIC KERNEL by William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz

Bill and Lynne continue their exploration of multiprogramming and multitasking.

XALLOC: AN EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER by Herbert Gintis

Implementing expanded memory equivalents of TP's dynamic memory functions.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

C++ FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS by Stuart G. Phillips and Kevin J. Rowett

Our authors describe how you can customize Borland C++ to support non-PC environments.

SMALLTALK AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS by John Duimovich and Mike Milinkovich

The Smalltalk environment can be a powerful embedded systems development platform.

FORTH: A STATUS REPORT by Jack J. Woehr

Embedded systems programmers have much at stake in the move towards a standardized Forth.

EXAMINING ROOM

ENHANCING THE ACTOR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT by Steve Hachett

Configuration inheritance adds a powerful dimension to object-oriented programming.

PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH

MIXED-LANGUAGE WINDOWS PROGRAMMING by John Norwood

Microsofts's Visual Basic makes it easy for Fortran programmers to access Windows 3 features.

COLUMNS

PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS by Michael Swaine

Michael reflects on the true meaning of the Apple-IBM alliance in this MacWorld Expo report.

C PROGRAMMING by Al Stevens

This D-Flat installment provides list management functions and more.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING by Jeff Duntemann

Jeff makes a case for vertical application development--and the tools it requires.

GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING by Michael Abrash

Anitialising and the Sierra Hicolor digital-to-analog converter is explored this month.