| Editor's Forum |
Another few months, another issue. I don’t know if there is any special significance to putting out issue #20, but it looks nice to have a zero in the 1’s place. One thing nice to report is that the number of QHJ readers is increasing (at least direct readers). I keep running into more QLers |
Sinclair QL |
| GST QC C Compiler - A Review |
I recently found out about another C compiler. Peter Tillier send me a copy (legal, of course) of a C compiler by GST. Peter says that the compiler is now available from Quanta for about 15 pounds. The compiler seems to be a cross between Small-C and Metacomco QL C. Like Small-C, it supports a |
Sinclair QL |
| Object Oriented Programming On The Ql |
I’ve been watching the current trend in programming move toward the Object Oriented paradigm for some time now and I still have no idea of what the real differences between Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and procedural programming. I have yet to see an article that compares the differences using an example program. To give an |
Sinclair QL |
| Program Proposal - Descriptor |
In looking through listings of new uploads to the MS-DOS/Windows site CICA, I came up with an idea for a program for the QL. Not having the full expertise or time to work on it, I thought I would present the idea here. Hopefully someone will run with it. Descriptor is a program that allows |
Sinclair QL |
| QHJ Freeware Awards |
Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a number of award shows, like the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Grammy Awards, Peoples Choice Awards and the Comedy Awards. This started me thinking about awards and lack of them in the QL community. Now magazines, newspapers, and other print media have their own version of |
Sinclair QL |
| Recent Freeware: APL |
Richard Zidlicky has ported a version of APL to the QL. APL stands for A Programming Language. APL is known for being about the worst write-only language. APL uses special symbols as it’s operators. This means that it usually requires a special keyboard, thereby making it a language not easy to port. APL is also |
Sinclair QL |
| Recent Freeware: INFORM |
INFORM is a language used to create text adventure games. It is based on the text adventures that the company INFOCOM used to produce. The adventures were composed of two data files and two programs. The adventure is first written in the INFORM language and compiled with INFORM. This creates a datafile that is then |
Sinclair QL |
| Reverse String |
In one of the programming newsgroups I read, I saw a couple of postings dealing with how to reverse a string or a list. A short example would be to take the string “abcde” and make it “edcba”.This little puzzle seemed interesting, so I thought I would give it a shot myself. My first approach |
Sinclair QL |
| Word Wrap |
Now that I have an HP Deskjet 520 inkjet printer, I’m starting to think about what type of output I could do on it. I’ve found the price of any word processors that support it to be a bit too steep. I have rigged up Quill to support one of the fonts built into the |
Sinclair QL |
