| Base Conversion |
In some postings in on Usenet, there have been some conversations about converting from different bases. I found this task interesting and thought I’d give it a try. I did fairly well in writing a routine that would convert from Base X to Base 10. Converting from base 10 to base X was more difficult. |
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| Computer Language Humor |
Here are a couple of related postings that I found on USENET. Each one gives a slightly different view of a number of computer languages. Programming Languages As A Car THE PROGRAMMER’S QUICK GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGES The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) |
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| Editor's Forum |
It has taken a while to get this issue out. I would like to thank Al Boehm for submitting an article and making this issue that much bigger. I’m always ready to receive an article for submission. I’d like to see what programming other are doing out there. The last weekend of August is the |
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| Hex Movement Library |
Recently I’ve been distracted by one of my other hobby, wargaming. There has been a discussion on USENET about freeware space combat games. Having designed one a few years back, I quickly did an ASCII version and posted it. This then lead to further distractions in that hobby. Feeling guilty about “abandoning” the QL, I |
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| How Do They Do That - Editors |
Here is an interesting response to a posting on editing files larger than memory. The algorithm listed below has a few good points, but also a few bad ones. I guess the key problem is finding the last line of a file quickly without scanning through the entire file each time. – ED arisz@csri.toronto.edu (Aris |
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| Internet Conciseness Programming Contest: Round 5 |
In past issues of the QHJ I’ve covered this contest. I’ve included Round 5 for completeness – ED PAPER FOLDING You are given a sheet of paper that contains all asterisks (‘*’) on top, and all pound signs (‘#’) on the bottom. A three by five sheet of this paper would look like this: ***** |
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| Stochastic Indexing |
This demo program, SID (Stochastic Indexing Demo), see listing 1 below, simulates clouds as seen by a satellite looking straight down. As a pictorial rendering of clouds, it is rather poor since it only uses circles to indicate where clouds are. But with a little imagination, one can see structures that resemble some types of |
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