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

Fortran Article is out in Dec. 2009 Issue

The Dec. 2009 issue of the New PCLINUXOS Magazine was just posted to the web.
This issue marks the second anniversery of my first published ariticle in this magazine. The December 2007 issue contained my article on creating a multi disk multi system boot loader. This system is still used on my computers. The main system contains the Multimedia version of Windows XP (Media Center Edition) as well as 11 versions of Linux distributions.

The article in the Dec. 2009 issue is about my first computer language Fortran. Here you will learn that it was about 40 years ago that I took my first computer language course in Fortran IV. Also you will learn how to install various Fortran compilers on your system. Like all the articles in my computer language series the featured compiler will be for the PC Linux OS distribution if possible.

Here is a link to this article:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200912/page16.html

Article on Elisp now on the web.

The November 2009 issue of the PCLINUXOS Magazine contains the next in my series of articles on computer languages. This one deals with the Emacs Lisp language also known
as Elisp.

This was crated by the founder of the Free Software Foundation: Richard Stallman better known as RMS.

Here is a link to the article from the November Issue of the magazine:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200911/page15.html

As mentioned in the article you will also need to have the emacs editor installed to use this version of Lisp.

Enjoy