Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

GCC 4.2.2 Release

October 12th, 2007 1 Comment

Although mainly just a bug-fix release, there is something special in the newest release of the GNU Compiler Collection. It is the first release, where the compilers are licensed under version 3 of the General Public License.
The next release 4.3, which is currently under development, includes more profound changes. Among them is (currently experimental) support […]

From Lua to PHP

July 11th, 2007 No Comments

Got enough of studying Lua for now. My next programming language project is to familiarize myself with another scripting language: PHP. And the tool: W3Schools’ PHP Tutorial.
I’ve made extensive use in the past of W3Schools’ HTML and CSS references - in fact I think I studied my first bit of CSS with their tutorial coupled […]

BadVista and Lua

June 3rd, 2007 No Comments

In an intricate series of link-clicking in Wikipedia, I found the campaign Bad Vista by the FSF. As much as I respect what the FSF has achieved, I must say that I’ll never join the campaign. This seems like the OS war is degenerating to some kind of calling-names-sandbox-fight. The correct way to promote […]