Programming Environments and Interfaces (Web servers) You can slice and
Programming Environments and Interfaces You can slice and dice the topic of Linux programming environments and interfaces in a variety of ways. For example, a list of the programming languages known to have compilers that target or run on Linux easily runs to three single-spaced, typewritten pages. You could also examine the literally hundreds of programming libraries that exist for Linux. Alternatively, you can organize the discussion by dividing everything into three categories: graphically oriented interfaces, command-line interfaces, and other environments. To some readers, a programming environment means a graphical, point-and-click integrated development environment (IDE) like that provided by Borland s Kylix or IBM s Visual Age. Yet another way to approach the subject is to look at Linux s development support for certain academic and computing subjects, such as graphics, databases, mathematics, engineering, chemistry, text processing, physics, biology, astronomy, networking, and parallel computing. Unfortunately, there s no single definitive taxonomy on which everyone agrees, so this chapter takes the easy way out and divides things into environments and interfaces. For the purposes of this chapter, a programming environment refers to the setting in which programming takes place and the accoutrement with which someone performs programming tasks. 2C H A8P8T E R . . . . In This Chapter Developing applications for Linux Using graphical programming environments Using command-line programming environments Programming for GUI interfaces Programming for command-line interfaces Using application programming interfaces . . . .
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