On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, brian garcia wrote:
> Salutations.
.and greetings!
> I'm new to Linux.
Congratulations and welcome aboard! I have been using Linux for four
years. I hope you'll enjoy the experience.
Let me ask you two questions:
1. Have you used other flavours of UNIX before?
2. Which distribution of Linux are you using?
> How can I utilize C and C++ languages within it?
You can use any text editor (I like emacs, other people have other
preferences) to create a file containing your sourcecode, file extension
should be .c
You can compile the program using the gcc command, and in many cases, cc
is aliased to gcc.
I believe there are more integrated development environments available,
but I am not familiar with them.
> What other languages can I utilize within it?
I have seen fortran, lisp, prolog and cobol. There are lots more. There
are, of course, the shell languages (bash, ksh, csh) which are roughly
equivalent to batch files in the Microsoft environment, but much more
versatile.
You would be well-advised to look through the howto documents (most
distributions I have used install a collection of these somewhere like
/usr/doc) and the man pages (type man ).
If you encounter difficulties, email here, there are a lot of us out here
who love to share our knowledge. It's sort of like spreading a faith :)
One request, though: In future posts, please fill out the Subject field.
It helps people figure out what emails they want to read, whether they are
interested or knowledgeable about the topic at hand.
Regards,
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