Re: [Nolug] Possibly stupid question!

On Friday 18 August 2006 21:05, Fritz wrote:
> Compiliers are pretty much a commodity now. Linux has GCC, Mac OS X has
> XCode, and Microsoft has a free version of Visual C++ 2005.
>
> Honestly, none of these probably matter. What you will most likely find is
> that your professor / ta will require your code to compile on
> $deparment_box_x using $department compilier.

The CS department has a flock of Sun boxen, but I have no idea what the
engineering department uses.

>
> You will probably SSH into a machine, fire up emacs, and get your code to
> compile. They generally dont require that you install software on your own
> laptop, or such things like that.

s/emacs/vi/

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