What's Available on GL

Many of these tools we will go into detail on, but for those of you that come from other backgrounds and want to go ahead and tinker with these tools before we mention them in class, here are the names of many of the common tools.

Text Editors

• Xemacs
• Emacs
• Pico
• vi
• gedit
• As well as many other non-common editors

Compilers

• C compiler - gcc
• C++ compiler - g++
• Java compiler & Java Virtual Machine - javac & java

Debuggers

• C / C++ debugger - gdb
• C / C++ debugger - ddd

Interpreters

• Python - python
• Perl - perl
• Tcl/Tk - tcl & wish

Miscellaneous

• Web Browsers - Mozilla, Netscape & Lynx (lynx is text based) we'll also talk about GET/wget
• Instant Messengers - Gaim
• Email - Netscape is there, but we will learn Pine