August 1994 / Core Technologies

Functional Programming Comes of Age A quicksort in the Miranda language	Beyond Lisp, some new functional programming languages are starting to emerge after the ongoing research of the eighties - by Dick Pountain
The Erlang Language	The Erlang language, named after Danish mathematician Agner Erlang, was developed by a team of employees at the giant Swedish communicati ons firm Ericsson, where it's used to write huge real-time control programs for telephone exchanges and network switches.
A Different Kind of RISC	HP's elegant new implementation of its PA-RISC architecture delivers world-class performance - by Dick Pountain
System 7.5: A Step Toward the Future System 7.5 Features	Apple's new Mac OS, simultaneously released on 680x0- and PowerPC -based Macs, has new features both over and under the covers - by Tom Thompson
SNMP Version 2	This protocol's new features let you better manage network devices - by William Stallings and Ben Smith

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