Lots of Programming Tools Linux has inherited from Unix a large selection of programming tools. There are compilers like GCC and Clang, debuggers like GDB, and editors like Vim and GNU Emacs.

It's telling that IDEs have thrived most on non-Linux or Unix platforms, particularly Windows. Windows has made less use of ...

It isn’t uncommon these days for a programmer’s editor to offer you help about what you are typing, ranging from a pop up with choices to a full-blown code template. If you ha ...

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From here on , now you can run Bash scripts, Linux command-line tools like sed, awk, grep and you can even try Linux-first tools like Ruby, Git, Python, etc. directly on Windows.

The popular Linux and Unix shell has a serious security problem that means real trouble for many web servers. Fortunately, a patch -- as source code -- is available.

Linux and Unix arrange things so that multiple running instances of the same program share their code if possible; only one copy of the instructions for the same program resides in memory at any time.

Python should not replace all the bash commands. It is as powerful to write Python programs that behave in a UNIX fashion (that is, read in standard input and write to standard output) as it is to ...

Figure 1. Accessing the Bash shell. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 2. The Bash shell. Common Bash Commands For the uninitiated, or those steeped in Microsoft command-line dogma, the Bash ...