Internet Resources

Internet Resources

The links below are to resources available on the Internet. They were valid at the time of writing, but (the Net being what it is) they may well be out of date by the time you read this. If so, you could try a general search for the filenames, or come to the Pragmatic Programmer Web site (www.pragmaticprogrammer.com) and follow our links.

Editors

Emacs and vi are not the only cross-platform editors, but they are freely available and widely used. A quick scan through a magazine such as Dr. Dobbs will turn up several commercial alternatives.

Emacs

Both Emacs and XEmacs are available on Unix and Windows platforms.

[URL l] The Emacs Editor

www.gnu.org

The ultimate in big editors, containing every feature that any editor has ever had, Emacs has a near-vertical learning curve, but repays handsomely once you've mastered it. It also makes a great mall and news reader, address book, calendar and diary, adventure game, .

[URL 2] The XEmacs Editor

www.xemacs.org

Spawned from the original Emacs some years ago, XEmacs is reputed to have cleaner internals and a better-looking interface.

vi

There are at least 15 different vi clones available. Of these, vim is probably ported to the most platforms, and so would be a good choice of editor if you find yourself working in many different environments.

[URL 3] The Vim Editor

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/editors/vim

From the documentation: "There are a lot of enhancements above vi: multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc."

[URL 4] The elvis Editor

www.fh-wedel.de/elvis

An enhanced vi clone with support for X.

[URL 5] Emacs Viper Mode

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~kifer/emacs.html

Viper is a set of macros that make Emacs look like vi. Some may doubt the wisdom of taking the world's largest editor and extending it to emulate an editor whose strength is its compactness. Others claim it combines the best of both worlds .

Compilers, Languages, and Development Tools

[URL 6] The GNU C/C++ Compiler

www.fsf.org/software/gcc/gcc.html

One of the most popular C and C++ compilers on the planet. It also does Objective-C. (At the time of writing, the egcs project, which previously splintered from gcc, is in the process of merging back into the fold.)

[URL 7] The Java Language from Sun

java.sun.com

Home of Java, including downloadable SDKs, documentation, tutorials, news, and more.

[URL 8] Perl Language Home Page

www.perl.com

O'Reilly hosts this set of Peri- related resources.

[URL 9] The Python Language

www.python.org

The Python object-oriented programming language is interpreted and interactive, with a slightly quirky syntax and a wide and loyal following.

[URL 10] SmallEiffel

SmallEiffel.loria.fr

The GNU Eiffel compiler runs on any machine that has an ANSI C compiler and a Posix runtime environment.

[URL 11] ISE Eiffel

www.eiffel.com

Interactive Software Engineering is the originator of Design by Contract, and sells a commercial Eiffel compiler and related tools.

[URL 12] Sather

www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~sather

Sather is an experimental language that grew out of Eiffel. It aims to support higher-order functions and iteration abstraction as well as Common Lisp, CLU, or Scheme, and to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran.

[URL 13] VisualWorks

www.objectshare.com

Home of the VisualWorks Smalltalk environment. Noncommercial versions for Windows and Linux are available for free.

[URL 14] The Squeak Language Environment

squeak.cs.uiuc.edu

Squeak is a freely available, portable implementation of Smalltalk-80 written in itself; it can produce C code output for higher performance.

[URL 15] The TOM Programming Language

www.gerbil.org/tom

A very dynamic language with roots in Objective-C.

[URL 16] The Beowulf Project

www.beowulf.org

A project that builds high-performance computers out of networked clusters of inexpensive Linux boxes.

[URL 17] iContractDesign by Contract Tool for Java

www.reliable-systems.com

Design by Contract formalism of preconditions, postconditions, and invariants, implemented as a preprocessor for Java. Honors inheritance, implements existential quantifiers, and more.

[URL 18] NanaLogging and Assertions for C and C++

www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/index.html

Improved support for assertion checking and logging in C and C++. It also provides some support for Design by Contract.

[URL 19] DDDData Display Debugger

www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd

A free graphical front end for Unix debuggers .

[URL 20] John Brant's Refactoring Browser

st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/brant/Refactory

A popular refactoring browser for Smalltalk.

[URL 21 ] DOC++ Documentation Generator

www.zib.de/Visual/software/doc++/index.html

DOC++ is a documentation system for C/C++ and Java that generates both and HTML output for sophisticated online browsing of your documentation directly from the C++ header or Java class flies.

[URL 22] xUnitUnit Testing Framework

www.XProgranming.com

A simple but powerful concept, the xUnit unit testing framework provides a consistent platform for testing software written in a variety of languages.

[URL 23] The Tcl Language

www. scriptics .com

Tcl ("Tool Command Language") is a scripting language designed to be easy to embed into an application.

[URL 24] ExpectAutomate Interaction with Programs

expect.nist.gov

An extension built on Tcl [URL 23], expect allows you to script interaction with programs. As well as helping you write command flies that (for example) fetch files from remote servers or extend the power of your shell, expect can be useful when performing regression testing. A graphical version, expectk, lets you wrap non-GUI applications with a windowing front end.

[URL 25] T Spaces

www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/TSpaces

From their Web page: "T Spaces is a network communication buffer with database capabilities. It enables communication between applications and devices in a network of heterogeneous computers and operating systems. T Spaces provides group communication services, database services, URL-based file transfer services, and event notification services."

[URL 26] javaCCJava Compiler-Compiler

www.metamata.com/javacc

A parser generator that is tightly coupled to the Java language.

[URL 27] The bison Parser Generator

www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html

bison takes an input grammar specification and generates from it the C source code of a suitable parser.

[URL 28] SWIGSimplified Wrapper and Interface Generator

www.swig.org

SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C, C++, and Objective-C with a variety of high-level programming languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl/Tk, as well as Java, Eiffel, and Guile.

[URL 29] The Object Management Group, Inc.

www.omg.org

The OMG is the steward of various specifications for producing distributed object-based systems. Their work includes the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP). Combined, these specifications make it possible for objects to communicate with each other, even if they are written in different languages and run on different types of computers.

Unix Tools Under DOS

[URL 30] The UWIN Development Tools

www.gtlinc.com/Products/Uwin/uwin.html

Global Technologies, Inc., Old Bridge, NJ

The UWIN package provides Windows Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that emulate a large portion of the Unix C level library interface. Using this interface, GTL has ported a large number of Unix command-line tools to Windows. See also [URL 31].

[URL 31 ] The Cygnus Cygwin Tools

sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

Cygnus Solutions, Sunnyvale, CA

The Cygnus package also emulates the the Unix C library interface, and provides a large array of Unix command-line tools under the Windows operating system.

[URL 32] Perl Power Tools

www.perl.com/pub/language/ppt/

A project to reimplement the classic Unix command set in Perl, making the commands available on all platforms that support Perl (and that's a lot of platforms).

Source Code Control Tools

[URL 33] RCSRevision Control System

prep.ai.mit.edu

GNU source code control system for Unix and Windows NT.

[URL 34] CVSConcurrent Version System

www.cvshome.com

Freely available source code control system for Unix and Windows NT. Extends RCS by supporting a client-server model and concurrent access to files.

[URL 35] Aegis Transaction-Based Configuration Management

http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis.html

A process-oriented revision control tool that imposes project standards (such as verifying that checked-in code passes tests).

[URL 36] ClearCase

www.rational.com

Version control, workspace and build management, process control.

[URL 37] MKS Source Integrity

www.mks.com

Version control and configuration management. Some versions incorporate features allowing remote developers to work on the same files simultaneously (much like CVS).

[URL 38] PVCS Configuration Management

www. merant .com

A source code control system, very popular for Windows systems.

[URL 39] Visual SourceSafe

www.microsoft.com

A version control system that integrates with Microsoft's visual development tools.

[URL 40] Perforce

www.perforce.com

A client-server software configuration management system.

Other Tools

[URL 41] WinZipArchive Utility for Windows

www.winzip.com

Nico Mak Computing, Inc., Mansfield, CT

A Windows-based file archive utility. Supports both zip and tar formats.

[URL 42] The Z Shell

sunsite.auc.dk/zsh

A shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.

[URL 43] A Free SMB Client for Unix Systems

samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/

Samba lets you share files and other resources between Unix and Windows systems. Samba includes:

• An SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs , and others.

• A Netbios nameserver, which among other things gives browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.

• An ftp-like SMB client that allows you to access PC resources (disks and printers) from Unix, Netware, and other operating systems.

Papers and Publications

[URL 44] The comp.object FAQ

www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq2

A substantial and well-organized FAQ for the comp.object newsgroup.

[URL 45] eXtreme Programming

www.XProgramming.com

From the Web site: "In XP, we use a very lightweight combination of practices to create a team that can rapidly produce extremely reliable, efficient, well- factored software. Many of the XP practices were created and tested as part of the Chrysler C3 project, which is a very successful payroll system implemented in Smalltalk."

[URL 46] Alistair Cockburn 's Home Page

members .aol.com/acockburn

Look for "Structuring Use Cases with Goals" and use case templates.

[URL 47] Martin Fowler 's Home Page

ourworld.CompuServe.com/homepages/martin_fowler

Author of Analysis Patterns and co-author of UML Distilled and Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Martin Fowler's home page discusses his books and his work with the UML.

[URL 48] Robert C. Martin's Home Page

www.objectmentor.com

Good introductory papers on object-oriented techniques, including dependency analysis and metrics.

[URL 49] Aspect-Oriented Programming

www.pare.xerox.com/csl/projects/aop/

An approach to adding functionality to code, both orthogonally and declaratively .

[URL 50] JavaSpaces Specification

java.sun.com/products/javaspaces

A Linda-like system for Java that supports distributed persistence and distributed algorithms.

[URL 51] Netscape Source Code

www.mozilla.org

The development source of the Netscape browser.

[URL 52] The Jargon File

www.jargon.org

Eric S. Raymond

Definitions for many common (and not so common) computer industry terms, along with a good dose of folklore.

[URL 53] Eric S. Raymond's Papers

www. tuxedo .org/~esr

Eric's papers on The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Homesteading the Noo-sphere describing the psychosocietal basis for and implications of the Open Source movement.

[URL 54] The K Desktop Environment

www.kde.org

From their Web page: "KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. KDE is an Internet project and truly open in every sense."

[URL 55] The GNU Image Manipulation Program

www.gimp.org

Gimp is a freely distributed program used for image creation, composition, and retouching.

[URL 56] The Demeter Project

www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter

Research focused on making software easier to maintain and evolve using Adaptive Programming.

Miscellaneous

[URL 57] The GNU Project

www.gnu.org

Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA

The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for the GNU project. The GNU project's goal is to produce a complete, free, Unix-like system. Many of the tools they've developed along the way have become industry standards.

[URL 58] Web Server Information

www. netcraft .com/survey/servers.html

Links to the home pages of over 50 different web servers. Some are commercial products, while others are freely available.