This issue is far later that I would like. Planning for the West Coast Sinclair Show (for which this issue is being prepared) took a fair amount of time. I’ve also been fiddling around the house getting it ready for guests coming to the show. I’ve also been distracted by some projects from work. I’m looking foward to running Linux on my Q40 and doing some “Professional” stuff with it.
Well, after about a year, the Qliberator Source Book project has reached a point that I have enough material to release. Since Qliberator was only a small part of the main document, I changed the title to the SuperBasic Source Book. The focus was on Qliberator, Programming Toolkits, and Programming Tools. There is no sections on the SuperBasic language itself. The emphasis was on what is necessary to produce compiled professional code. I plan to add more information to the Source Book as I find the time. A number of sections came from the QHJ, but were expanded with more information. The whole document (along with many others) can be found on my web page:
www.geocites.com/SiliconValley/Pines/5865/
Last issue covered two different languages, Perl and AWK. This started me thinking about other languages that are available on the QL and who, if any, uses them. A number of people have ported different languages to the QL, from the then popular XLISP, to the now popular Perl. Each language has it’s own features and reasons for being. What I want to know is, who uses these languages? Has anybody done anything useful with these languages? Do you have a favorite language that you like to program in? If you use a language on the QL other than Assembly, C, SuperBasic, or Perl (we just touched it), let me know. Tell me what language you use, what you use it for, how it suits your needs, and provide an example of a useful tool you’ve created with the language.