Jan 2011 issue covers Unicon

An earlier post covered the Icon language. The author of the language when told that this would not function in the PCLINUX distribution told me that users should watch the links as it was still being actively developed. So if possible it would be modified to function with many versions of linux.

At present my access to the internet has been inturrupted and I am reaching it through the local library. This post will be modified to include the cover of the Jan. issue as well as other information once I have regained access to the internet from home.

To see the post of this language coverage check out the following link:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201101/page17.html

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