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- Call For Papers
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- (From The C Users Journal, September 1990)
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- The C Users Journal is especially interested in articles on the
- following topics for theme stories in forthcoming issues: Portability,
- Algorithms, Real-time and Embedded Systems.
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- PORTABILITY
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- Proposals due 9/16/91; manuscripts due 10/11/91.
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- Suggested topics: C++ classes that encapsulate system-dependent
- interfaces; small libraries that provide useful services across many
- implementations; user experience with commercial or public domain
- tools that check for non-portable constructs; methods for enforcing
- style rules; a case study in making a non-trivial program portable.
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- Overworked topics (require fresh perspective): style tutorials, small
- screen-interface libraries.
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- ALGORITHMS
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- Proposals due 10/14/91; manuscripts due 11/08/91.
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- Suggested topics: useful techniques for manipulating data structures,
- for compressing or encrypting data, for solving other common
- programming problems -- all coded succinctly in C; classes in C++
- that encapsulate such operations well; a tutorial on time complexity,
- preferably with coded examples and actual measurements.
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- Overworked topics (require fresh perspective): LZW encoding, heap
- management, skip lists.
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- REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
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- Proposals due 11/13/91; manuscripts due 12/11/91.
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- Suggested topics: examples of very small or small real-time
- applications coded largely in C; useful algorithms used in conjunction
- with real-time operating systems; a tutorial on constructing an
- embedded application, showing a minimal skeleton of C code; how to
- adapt (pervert) popular hosted compilers to produce embedded code;
- methods of tracing or profiling real-time code; performance prediction,
- estimation, and/or measurement for hard real-time systems.
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- Overworked topics (require fresh perspective): message-queuing systems,
- event-driven schedulers.
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