Compile the code. A high-level programming language is easy for coders to work with because it is far more abstract than how computers need to process commands – purely in terms of binary code ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7).Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...