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Linux 2005 timeline

Linux Weekly News has published the Linux and open source timeline for 2005.

Posted 05 January 2006 † spiros § ‡ Comments (0) °

Cool demos of mono applications

In this page Nat Friedman (of Gnome and Ximian fame) has created some really nice demos showing Beagle and Mono.
Mono is an OSS implmentation of Microsoft’s .Net platform. Nat has created two demos for Monodoc (the Mono documentation browser) and for creating GUIs with Glade and Gtk#.
Beagle is a cool OSS application written in C#. [...]

Posted 08 March 2005 † spiros § .Net ‡ Comments (0) °

The development of the C language

In the last couple of days I’ve being reading a lot about software development. Today, to read something different, I re-read “The development of the C language” by Dennis Ritchie. One good fact found in this paper, that it is not widely known, is why C was developed.
Before C there was a language called B [...]

Posted 05 March 2005 † spiros § C/C++ ‡ Comments (0) °