Automake and Autoconf Made Simple

Jeff Aigner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:15:14 +0000

Instead of randomly pasting configuration code from other projects when you decide you want to use automake/autoconf, just check out all you should really know about autoconf and automake. Albeit, it may not be comprehensive, but it should get you started.

Scripting Languages

Jeff Aigner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:02:04 +0000

I just thought I’d share with you Random thoughts on scripting languages by Brian Kernighan.

After reading this, I looked up the source code to the unix utility wc. The GNU wc program was written in C, and amounted to about 800 lines with comments. A similar program written in awk is a mere 2 lines long:

{ nc += length($0) + 1; nw += NF }
END { print NR, "lines", nw, "words", nc, "characters" }

I know you are probably thinking that I just made an unfair comparison. Yes, I did.

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Automake and Autoconf Made Simple

Scripting Languages