On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:39:23PM -0500, rich wrote: > Thanks Seth! It seems lately that many questions go unanswered, much > less answered in such a thorough manner... I'm sure that your advice > will help me...
Well, many are above my head, so I let them lie rather than give patently wrong info. (Which doesn't prevent me from giving the direction to look in if I think I have a clue :) Although, there are so many questions and answers posted here each day (70 between the time I checked before bed, and when I woke up!) that I often feel I will be duplicating or triplicating answers when I am so far behind in the list. (There are actually about 100 messages in here I have yet to read, and I doubt I will get to them ever..) So, sometimes when I know the answer, I don't answer right away, but continue reading forward, hoping to find an answer -- or hoping to remember at the end that someone wanted an answer. And the thing is, the problem is because people *are* so helpful. hehe. :) lovely bunch this debian crowd. :) > > > Howdy everyone, > > > > > > I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would > > > consider part of the "standard" toolbox of a programmer? > > > > > > Well, it all depends on the programmer, I suppose. :) You need a good text > > editor. For me, that is vim. (As another debian-user reader pointed out, > > "You can take my Vim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands." Same goes > > for me, but it might be more difficult. :) For others, that might be elvis > > or emacs or whatever else. In any case, you need a good one, one that you > > know well. > > > > You should have the compiler for whatever language you want to play in. For > > java, you need the jdk. (I think I have all four jdk* packages installed on > > my system..) For C, you need gcc. > > > > One thing that I dabbled with over the summer is makefiles -- wonderfully > > amazing things. With the right Makefile you can type :make in vim and it > > will rebuild your source, and jump to the first line with errors, and let > > you step through all the lines with errors. I am sure emacs offers the same > > setup. > > > > If you want to do much C programming, and you have X window installed, then > > check out ddd -- a GUI frontend to gdb (very much nicer to a newbie such as > > myself) as well as some other debuggers (rumored to also include the java > > debugger, though I haven't tested that.) > > > > If you want to do Perl programming, well, your Debian system should have > > come with that preinstalled. If you don't know perl, then buy one of two > > books: Learning Perl, by Randal L Swartz (I hope I got that right) or > > Programming Perl, by Tom Christianson and Larry Wall. Which one you buy > > depends on your programming experience. At some point you *will* want > > Programming Perl, so you might as well buy that one, and if it goes over > > your head (like it did mine my first trip through it) grab Learning Perl, > > and then try again. :) > > > > as for other bits of the toolbox, you need to use manpages, (perldoc has > > perl info, the C ones are harder to find; I don't think there is one manpage > > that lists all the other C-based manpages..) grep, find, and maybe other > > bits too. > > > > :) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
