Since the original article was written, there have been many changes and improvements to the J language. While the mathematically oriented users no doubt drove these, many of the changes have not only simplified the code, but also provided considerable speed up to the operations typical of commercial processing. As a result I have updated the original article with discussion of these changes. J, like its precursor APL, is used in business for financial and mathematical modeling, analysis of large databases, engineering, actuarial work, forecasting, operational research studies, and other applications where a knowledgeable person is mostly employing it in their own work or as a teaching and communications tool. Quite often those employing it are very reticent about how they use it, or just exactly what the application consists of. They view it as conferring a definite edge, a competitive advantage in their business that they would prefers others not be aware of. When competing for fixed price applications development contracts, others are equally disinclined to broadcast the fact that they employ such languages to gain a speed and cost advantage. All this makes it rather difficult for an IT or business manager to evaluate whether J is applicable to their own business. The J language is a powerful interpretive language with a concise syntax. Its very power and conciseness makes it difficult for a novice to master, but also makes it of interest to a manager because little code and effort is required to achieve results. This article discuses the features of J, which make it applicable to typical commercial processing, tasks. It provides simple code examples to illustrate for a manager how little code may be required to implement powerful data manipulation capabilities. Hopefully the article will be of value to those evaluating high-level languages suitable for commercial processing in a distributed, client/server or mainframe environment.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.

This is KSCE's hypertext version of the Ada 95 Reference Manual (Language and Standard Libraries), revised international standard (ISO/IEC 8652:1995): Information Technology -- Programming Languages -- Ada

Capability Maturity Model Integration(SM) (CMMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model(R) (CMM(R)) for Software and the Systems Engineering Capability Model, a team of over two hundred engineering and process improvement experts worked for three years to create this broader, more agile instrument for guiding, integrating, and appraising improvement activities. CMMI provides a single, integrated framework for improving processes throughout an organization, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the organization as a whole.

Features detailed information on database programming, including ODBC and client/server technology. Covers hot new Internet and object-oriented programming features. Teaches beginning- and intermediate-level programmers how to write for the Microsoft Windows operating system using the Visual Basic programming environment.If you have chosen Visual Basic as your programming tool, let me be the first to congratulate you. Visual Basic is by far the most popular programming tool in history, and there are a lot of good reasons for this popularity. When Visual Basic was originally introduced, it was the first development tool that took Windows programming out of the realm of the specialist and brought it to a level where normal, intelligent people could get something useful done. The ideas of drag-and-drop interface design and event-driven programming are almost universal now, but Visual Basic was the first to make them available to the general programmer. There are plenty of Visual Basic imitators now, and some of them are quite good. In my opinion—and I am not alone—Visual Basic is still the leader of the pack when it comes to Windows development tools. You have made a wise choice.

The heart of C# in a Nutshell is a succinct but detailed reference to the C# language and the .NET types most essential to C# programmers. Each chapter in the API reference begins with an overview of a .NET namespace and a diagram of its types, including a quick-reference entry for each type, with name, assembly, category, description, member availability, class hierarchy, and other relevant information, such as whether the type is part o the ECMA CLI specification. Newly updated for .NET Framework version 1.1, the second edition also adds a CD that allows you to integrate the book's API Quick Reference directly into the help files of Visual Studio .NET 2002 & 2003, giving you direct access to this valuable information via your computer.

Uncover the necessary steps to building successful software applications.

Nowadays, software is virtually everywhere. Though you might initially think only of PCs and industrial computer systems when talking about software, applications are much more widespread. Consider washing machines, electric razors, thermostats, microwave ovens, cars, TVs, monitors and so on. Obviously these examples span many different kinds of architectures and use a variety of microprocessors. Different optimization techniques for performance and footprint size are needed here.

Those of you who run networks on Windows 2000 know the benefits of using Active Directory for managing user information and permissions. You also know what a bear it can be. The newer version included with Windows Server 2003 has over 100 new and updated features to simplify deployment, but once it's in place many system administrators still find Active Directory challenging. If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with our new Active Directory Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 & Windows 2000, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for both versions of the directory. The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you might encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. Author Robbie Allen, a Senior Systems Architect at Cisco Systems and co-author of our Active Directory tutorial, based this collection of troubleshooting recipes on his own experience, along with input from Windows administrators throughout the industry. Each recipe includes a discussion to explain how and why the solution works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.

Windows XP users and administrators need a quick and easy way to find answers. Plenty of books go into detail about the theory behind a particular technology or application, but few go straight to the essentials for getting the job done. Windows XP Cookbook does just that, tackling the most common tasks needed to install, manage, and support Windows XP.

Из чего состоит дистрибутив Linux? Как он работает и почему? Что умеет, и как этими умениями управлять? Кто они такие, эти таинственные «линуксо- иды»? пингвины? Если писать программы, то про что их писать? И вообще— что на самом деле такое: «Linux», «Дистрибутив», «Сообщество», «Свободные программы» наконец? Обо всём этом и о некотором другом и написано во второй половине нашей книги. Раз уж приходится управлять таким сложным созданием, как пингвин, и тем более—таким сложным инструментом, как компьютер, без знаний не обойтись. Если вы не считаете поведение компьютера «предопределением природы», и хотите что-то изменить к лучшему, непременно стоит познакомиться с тем, что именно вы хотите изменить. По крайней мере, мы—разработчики дистрибутивов ALT Linux и участники Linux-сообщества—для себя решили начинать именно со знаний.

This standard specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs expressed in the FORTRAN language. The purpose of this standard is to promote portability of FORTRAN programs for use on a variety of data processing systems.

A breakthrough approach to managing agile software development. Agile methods might just be the alternative to outsourcing. However, agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. In Agile Management for Software Engineering, David J. Anderson shows managers how to apply management science to gain the full business benefits of agility through application of the focused approach taught by Eli Goldratt in his Theory of Constraints. Whether you're using XP, Scrum, FDD, or another agile approach, you'll learn how to develop management discipline for all phases of the engineering process, implement realistic financial and production metrics, and focus on building software that delivers maximum customer value and outstanding business results

This resource offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications to working PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level.

This book describes the internal algorithms and the structures that form the basis of the UNIX ®operating system and their relationship to the programmer interface. The system description is based on UNIX System V Release 2 supported by AT&T, with some features from Release 3.

Applications Interface Programming Using Multiple Languages is a comprehensive, hands-on, and practical guide to interface programming between multiple languages. Today, as computer technology develops rapidly, a single programming language sometimes is not enough to handle complicated, real-world implementations. Each language has its strong and weak points and it is very difficult to find one language to satisfy all applications requirements. Mixed-language programming, or interface programming between multiple languages, has emerged to meet the needs of complicated applications and implementations in scientific research, industrial controls, and manufacturing, as well as in commercial applications. Using interface programming, professional Graphic User Interfaces, flexible databases, multitask environments, and real-time controllability can be integrated to form an optimal computer system that can complete challenging applications tasks.