I don’t have much to say for an introduction to this issue. I do want to thank Peter Tillier for contributing two articles. He really filled a few pages for me. The more articles I get the easier it is on me and the more often I can publish. I hate it when I have programming dry spells.
In QHJ #22, was a Day of the Week program. Mel Laverne found out one small bug in the program that did not make it work. Then translating from C to SuperBasic, I forgot that the original program was done with Integer arithmetic. SuperBasic defaults to floating point, so the program was off fairly often. So change all variables to integers and the whole thing should work out.
While browsing the Internet recently, I came across an article that I had heard about but had not read; The Tao of Programming. The Tao of Programming is written in a very Eastern way of writing, with formal sounding wisdom, but sprinkled lightly with modern humor. Here is an example:
“The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the Assembler.
The Assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now their are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.
But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.”
If you find the Tao of Programming, give it a read.
I hope you like this issue, and I’ll see you on the ‘Net.