Re: [Nolug] Possibly stupid question!

On Friday 18 August 2006 20:16, Chris Johnston wrote:
> I will be starting UNO as an engineering major in the spring semester.
> In engineering you are required to know some programming and as a
> prerequisite you must take a programming class and I believe they teach
> C,C+,or C++ and I would like to know if you can run and compile C code
> in Linux? Windows requires you to purchase expensive programs to do this
> I think I remember reading somewhere that this was built into Linux. Is
> this correct?

Linux itself is written in C, as are most of the utilities that ship with most
distributions.

The compiler we all use is GCC, and of course it's free.

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Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
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