19 Jun
1999
19 Jun
'99
6:06 a.m.
On Jun 18, 22:32, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Subject: OT: Included Development Tools
Rumor has it that Tony Duell may have mentioned these words:
that
For the unices mentioned earlier, I believe that
cc, an assembler, etc
were _not_ included with the OS. So there is no way of writing programs
with the software as supplied.
Dunno about the others that were mentioned, but Solaris (in every form I dealt with, anyway...) did include cc, plus perl,
tcl/tk, I think
Python,
and maybe some others.
Now... the libraries that were included with Solaris were lame at best,
and
it is tough to get 3rd party programs to compile with
the included cc (a
quick upgrade to gcc fixes that...) but it was included, and was enough
to
write C & perl programs out of the box.
IIRC that isn't ANSI C, and certainly isn't intended for development work.
Sun sell a development compiler separately, and it's *not* cheap.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York