| Boot Up Reminder |
Productivity tools for the QL are far and few between. On the PC, there is a dearth of these tools; Meeting Maker, Lotus Organizer, Maximizer, etc. One feature of most productivity tools is the ability to remind you of special days, such as birthdays, anniversaries, appointments, and so on. Without doing much development work, a |
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| DBAS |
For most database programming, the QL programmer has been pretty much stuck with Archive. Archive is a fine language and is fairly similar to dBase III in programming feel. It has many advantages: editing of records built in, easy screen creation, a well structured language. But it also has a few weak points: limited functions, |
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| Editor's Forum |
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 |
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| Parameter Passing Mechanisms |
There are many parameter passing mechanisms that are used to pass data into, out of or both into and out of procedures or functions being accessed. What is said here applies to procedures and functions in the Pascal sense and to functions in the C sense; so I’ll omit ‘or function’ for the rest of |
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| Software Reuse |
For years I’ve reading articles on Software Reuse and how it can increase the productivity of programming shops. Since I program alone, as most QLers programmers do, I have never given it much thought for my programming. For some reason, a recent article on software reuse sparked a new thought about software reuse and the |
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| Some Thoughts On Programming Style |
In QHJ #24 Tim talks about a colleague’s style of writing Perl and contrasts it with his own. I have spent several years as a programming and system development lecturer within my company’s internal training department and nothing seems to cause more grief/criticism/etc., etc., as differences of programming style. I tend to use procedure calls |
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