On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:57:10PM -0500, rich wrote: > useful for a program using only a single source file, right? Also, what > about LINT? I'm not all that familiar with it, but it sounds like a > syntax checker, or some such thing for C programs? Any other .deb Lint is a static verification tool, which means it's designed to pick up any errors which can be found by examining the source - much more than just plain syntax. The nicest free beer lint avalible is probably lclint, but unfortunately it's non-free. There's a package for it. gcc also does a pretty good job by itself - using options like "-O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic" will pick up on a lot of mistakes (the -O2 is needed to enable some flow analysis used by some of the warnings). For i386 machines the TenDRA C compiler (packaged in potato) also provides some very strong checking, although it's probably not for the beginner. Using a tool like lint is generally a very good idea - it can help catch a lot of annoying and mystifying errors and also helps teach good habits. > packages that can make programming easier for a relative newbie? TBH the difficulties involved in learning to program normally have little to do with what programs you use. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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