Can people please suggest a good tutorial (or even book) on building a simple Desktop Windowing System, preferably coded in a high level language such as C with small pieces of assembly where necessary.The sort of thing I have in mind is something like GEM or the early MS Windows, which runs on top of an existing shell.
Computer Recreations Creative Computing, Sept-Oct. 1977 D. Van TasselSyntax MessagesIn the March-April 1977 issue I suggested you write a program to generate as many different syntax-error messages as possible with as few statements in the program as possible.I received a few responses but first prize must go to Wayne M. Compton of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He sent me a COBOL program with just one...
Parlog86 and the dining logicians G. A. Ringwood Communications of the ACM January 1988 https://doi.org/10.1145/35043.35044
I just had a look at Comic Cavalcade #29, and the page before the appearance of the ASCC is included at https://www.amazonarchives.com/all-titles/date/1940s/1948/co...