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Hanson, Trevor
Hanson-Smith, Ltd.
Chicago, Illinois
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  The C puzzle book: 2nd edition
Feuer A., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780131155022)

What a nice book! After browsing just a few pages, it is obvious that this is the right way to teach a language. The author presents the major concepts and constructs of C in 110 short source code puzzles (1–10 per page), whi...

Mar 1 1990  
  An Ada package for dimensional analysis
Hilfinger P. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 10(2): 189-203, 1988.  Type: Article

Dimensional analysis is a technique used to verify that numeric quantities are used in accordance with their units of measure (e.g., lengths should not be added to masses). This paper is essentially a response to a statement by O&#...

Jul 1 1989  
  Local networks
Wood D., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780131650503)

Given the title and copyright date of this book, one would expect the chapter on local area networks to carry considerable weight. Without dwelling on its details, consider these general observations:...

Feb 1 1987  
  A tour through Cedar
Teitelman W. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-11(3): 285-302, 1985.  Type: Article

This paper describes Cedar, a Xerox PARC research system. This ambitious project, begun in 1978, created a single-user system for experimental programming. It was derived from Mesa, but has also borrowed ideas from Smalltalk and Interl...

Dec 1 1986  
  The Alpine file system
Brown M., Kolling K., Taft E. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 3(4): 261-293, 1985.  Type: Article

This paper presents Alpine, a distributed file system which supports atomic transactions. Alpine was built to aid database research efforts at Xerox PARC; but, once available and reliable, Alpine also became a general-purpose file serv...

Sep 1 1986  
  Lucid, the dataflow programming language
Wadge W., Ashcroft E., ACADEMIC PRESS PROFESSIONAL, INC., San Diego, CA, 1985. 312 pp.  Type: Book (9780127296500)

LUCID is a functional language, but one which supports variables, i.e., values which change with time. . . . The statements of a LUCID program are equations . . . defining a network of processors and communications lines. LUCIDR...

Jan 1 1986  
  Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Krasner G. (ed), Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Inc., Boston, MA, 1983. 344 pp.  Type: Book (9780201116694), Reviews: (2 of 2)

This is the second in a four-book series about Smalltalk. The series is a systematic introduction and reference to the Smalltalk-80 environment, ranging from the programming language and objectives [1], to system application and use [2...

Jul 1 1985  
 
 
 
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