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title: "The QL Hacker’s Journal"
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excerpt: "The QL Hacker's Journal (QHJ) is a relatively new publication for the QL (first issue: Jan. 1991). As editor of the CATS Newsletter, I felt that many of the programming articles I'd written, or wanted to write, would not interest the majority of the CATS readership. I realized the need of a forum where QL…"
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  title: "International QL Report"
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    title: "International QL Report V1 I3"
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pubdate: "September/October 1991"
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# The QL Hacker’s Journal

[The QL Hacker’s Journal (QHJ)](http://localhost/category/periodicals/ql-hackers-journal/) is a relatively new publication for the QL (first issue: Jan. 1991). As editor of the [CATS Newsletter](http://localhost/periodical/cats-newsletter/), I felt that many of the programming articles I’d written, or wanted to write, would not interest the majority of the CATS readership. I realized the need of a forum where QL programmers could exchange ideas and programs. The QHJ supports all programmers and all languages. So far, programs have been published in SuperBasic, C, and Pascal, and I’am looking forward to those in Forth, Lisp, etc. The original mailing was to QLer’s that I knew to be programmers.