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- Public (software) Library
- Programming Library
-
- Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford
- Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
- See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information
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- [HP22D1, HP22D2, HP22D3, HP22D4, HP22D5]
- HyperPAD
- (Brightbill-Roberts & Co., Ltd ASP; $99)
- is a cross between an object-oriented programming language and an operating
- environment. It is roughly similar to HyperCard on the Mac. You can create
- a wide variety of applications with HyperPAD simply by combining predefined
- "objects" (pushbuttons, fields, pages, etc) with English-based instructions
- that tell the system what to do in response to various actions the user may
- take, such as pressing a button.
-
- Even if you do not want to learn the relatively small amount of programming
- required to create your own applications with HyperPAD, you should see the
- variety of prewritten applications that come with it: phone book, phone
- dialer, message taker, call tracking, project management, notebook,
- calculators, expense log, letter writer, daily planner, index card database,
- label printer, computer configuration analysis, games, and more.
-
- [IPL_OS2]
- IPL for OS/2 (Griswold, Ralph E.; $0) contains OS/2 executables for the
- Icon programing language. This program has several novel features, such as
- expressions that produce sequences of results, a goal-directed evaluation
- that will automatically perform searches for a successful result, and there
- is also string scanning that allows operations on strings to be formulated
- at a high conceptual level.
-
- [MUMPS]
- Mumps is a specialized programming language. There is no indication and is
- provided only for the use of those who are already familiar with MUMPS.
-
- [MUMPS_FM]
- Mumps File Manager is a database program that runs under MUMPS.
-
- [PCList]
- PCList (Jones, Robert; $39) is an interpreter for the MVS TSO/E CList
- language for use with MS-DOS. A large subset of the CList language is
- supported.
-
- [VSNOBOL]
- Vanilla SNOBOL4 (CatsPaw, Inc.; $95) is an entry-level version of SNOBOL4
- that includes the entire Bell Labs SNOBOL4 programming language, except for
- real numbers and external functions. The total size of the object program
- and data cannot exceed 30K bytes in this version, but SNOBOL4 source is
- usually five to ten times smaller than equivalent code in C or Pascal.
- SNOBOL4 allows an unlimited number of user-defined subroutines. SNOBOL4 is
- particularly powerful in dealing with strings and patterns and seems
- intuitive and thus relatively easy to learn.
-