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Tuesday February 26, 2008

links for 2008-02-27

Teaching, Playing, and Programming: In praise of mandatory indentation for novice programmers

Chirs Okasaki reports striking improvements to novice performance when a (custom) language with significant whitespace was used for teaching.

(tags: blog post ChrisOkasaki teaching programming language syntax whitespace indentation academia course education computerscience casestudy coding)
Joe Buck - Re: [Q] Configure: Choosing as on Solaris, --with-gnu-as, and --with-as

I imagine this won't be of interest to a great deal of people, but still, it helped me a lot. In this message Joe Buck explains how GCC finds necessary subprograms (linker, preprocessor, assembler).

(tags: message JoeBuck GCC compiler CC C unix tool build building linker ld assembler as preprocessor gpp mail email mailing list Solaris Opensolaris GNU toolchain sysadmin)

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