This schold tickle your fancy.

As I mentioned I should have the coverage for the December issue up in just a few days. SO when I checked my email I noticed that the material was available for down load. The December issue also features a catalog of gifts which any Linux fan would appreciate.

The language of the month covers Tcl/Tk and Tcl is properly pronounced as tickle.
This language is noted for the ease with which it allows graphics to be displayed.
The text introduces you to the language and the demo shows just a little of the power of the language.

Enjoy.

The text of the article will be fount at the following link:

htttp://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201012/page15.html

Three languages to be thankful for

The month of November was over before i realized that I had not posted the coverage of the languages published in the November issue of the magazine.
I received my copy of the magazine for December and noted that the language was
Tcl/Tk and I wondered what had happened to the article I wrote on Q,R.S?

So I checked my blog and learned that I last posted the coverage of Pascal in October. Perhaps I was thinking that had she lived Nov 10 would have been her 64th birthday. Or I would be thinking of the Thanksgiving Holidays ahead.

But most of all I was kept busy tending to my son who was shot in the leg on October 30. So I was quite busy running him to the hospital and to doctors appointments and getting medicine from the wrong drug stores. It seems they would tell me they called it into one store and when visited I would learn it was at the other location. Or even perchance another chain. Example the drugs the told me were called into Walgreens were actually called in to the Walmart store and not the closest one at that.

So any way featured in the November issue are three languages: Q, R, and S. All
three are statistical languages and are used a lot for creating graphical information too. The S language is proprietary. R is an open source version with most of the features of S.

As it is already December the coverage for the article on Tcl/Tk will be posted to the blog in a few days.

Here it is time for Halloween already and this month we have a special treat for you in the form of coverage of the language Pascal. This language was introduced to computing about forty years ago. That was the same time I was learning my first major language Fortran.

This fact brings back memories of my college days and courting my wife. The language has been used on many platforms and has taught millions to program using structured language techniques. The text of the article will be found at the following link:
http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201010/page19.html

I hope you enjoy the article. Till next month

The language Octave arrives in Sept.

The time is just flying by. It seems that at one time I was nearly a year ahead in the writing of my articles. However, the time I took off to mourn over the loss of my wife of nearly forty years in January has allowed the magazine to catch up with my writing.

The current issue of The New PCLINUXOS Magazine covers the language Octave. This is an open source language which is freely available. Currently I am working on writing covering the languages Vala and Visual Basic. The reason for dealing with two is that as I approach the end of the alphabet the number of languages available for specifically the PCLINUX distro of linux is decreasing. Also the amount of coverage available on these languages is also becoming scarce.

You will find my article on the language Octave at the following link:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201009/page19.html

Icon is the topic covered in the March 2010 article

The language selected for this issue in my language series is Icon which was developed by Dr. Griswold. This language has some very unique features. It is in the public domain and there is a web site which is chuck full of interesting applications written in icon for your use.

Also there is plenty of documentation available on this one. You will find the link to the text of this article here:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201003/page04.html

April 2010 issue covers the language J

As I had already included coverage of the Korn shell which I dedicated to my late wife: Trudy and also the coverage of Lisp which appeared in the June issue the next issue which we have yet to mention is the language J. This language was developed by Ken Iverson which if you read the first article in this language series was the person who developed the language and notation system: APL.

However, J uses only characters in the ASCII set so has no wierd greek letters etc. Other than that it is very APL like in the concepts it uses. You will find the text of the article from the following link:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201004/page20.html

July 2010 issue covers Netlogo

True to the promise to catch up on the articles which have appeared in the language series since the Dec. 2009 issue we will begin working back from the current August 2010 issue toward Jan 2010.

The article which appeared in the July issue dells with the graphic language Netlogo.
You will find the full article by clicking the following link:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201007/page21.html

August issue covers Modula 2

Now that a suitable period of mourning has past it is time to catch up on creating posts for the articles which have appeared in the past few months. The August issue of the magazine contains an article on the language Modula2 which was created by Wirth like the Pascal language which will be covered in an up coming issue

You may find the article on Modula 2 via the following link:
http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201008/page15.html

Note that this appear after the article on Netlogo and all other items should be in order but the article was misplaced and I had to re-send it hence it is out of order. The next issue will be about the math language Octave in September. Meanwhile I will be creating posts on the
many articles which have appeared in the language series since Dec. 2009.

June issue out covers lisp

Having completed a period of mourning it is time to resume the updating of my computer articles. Several new issues in the series on "An Alphabet of Computer Languages" have appeared in the intervening months. Also there are several articles in the magazine during the past two years for which I have yet to add entries.

The June issue covers the language Lisp which like Fortran is one of the earliest computer languages. The article may be reached from the following link:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201006/page17.html

May article remembers wife

The last post to this was just before my wife returned from the hospital and was in the hospice process. So the last few months have been spent in mourning for her. I had intended to have my articlke on the Korn shell dedicated to her as I wrote it on her birthday. So it was dedicated but
the article serves as a memorial. Oh there is a group of rose bushes in the
front yard one of which has Yellow roses. You may guess what happened to
the best looking of these.

Here is a link to the article which is in the May 2010 issue:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201005/page14.html