| Archive Indent |
I have always thought that Archive has always been one of the underrated programming languages for the QL. When I first looked at Archive, it reminded me a lot of dBase III. What has limited me from really programming in Archive has been not having a big need to write a database application and not |
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| Databases And Bitmaps |
I read an interesting article that introduced the idea of using bitmaps in implementing a database. I don’t know if this concept will be of use to any QL programmers, but I found it interesting just to know. Conventional databases use B-trees and hashing to implement indexes. B-trees are just that, trees. An index is |
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| Deskjet Print Filter |
Once I got my DeskJet printer, I wanted to be able to produce nice looking text output. Quill and other word processors support only monospace fonts. The word processors that do support proportional spaced fonts are not real cheap. Being one to write my own print filters, I set myself out to write a print |
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| Editor's Forum |
Have you ever sat in front of the word processor, looking at a blank screen, and not really know what to type. This is how I am as I try to write this article. I always write this article last and use it to cover any loose thoughts that I might have from the other |
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| Notes On Programming In C |
While surfing on the Net (as the media likes to hype) I ran into a site that had some essays on programming. One, “Notes on Programming in C” by Robert Pike had some interesting points. Procedure Names Procedures names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return. Functions are used in |
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| Response To Day_Of_Week |
While playing around with the function on paper there appears to be a slight error. I am sure that I will not be the first to see this but I will attempt to explain anyway. The year part of the function Y + Y/4 – Y/100 + Y/400 is correct taking into account leap years, |
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| Software Reuse And SSB |
Through work I get a number of computer related magazines, either directly to me or ones that are received by the office. This gives me a chance to scan articles on a variety of subjects, of which some I find applicable to my computing. I like to try to apply different programming concepts I glean |
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| STRIPHTML_C |
With the popularity of the World Wide Web, more and more information is being formatted in HTML, the “language” of the Web. Since HTML is pure ASCII this is not a problem for people that don’t’ have Web Browsers. But, HTML commands can make text look very convoluted. The following C program will read a |
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