Programming links
While much of the information on this page is now quite
out-of-date, there is still some useful information to be found. I shall
be updating this page with lots of handy new pointers over the next few
weeks. In the meantime, please visit the
Openstrike
site for all matters relating to open source in general and Linux in
particular.
Fortran
Yes, the old ones are not necessarily the best, but here's some interesting
notes about old faithful.
- The Marketplace.
A useful site containing info on compilers and such.
- The
Style Guide. This is the non-definitive, but still interesting enough
document on what the DOs and DONT's of F77 are.
- The
FAQ. The full usenet works.
- A
tutorial
for migrating from F77 to F90.
C++
C Archive.
If you can't quite manage to scrape up the cash for Stroustrup's book, you
can always browse the
on-line version
(cheaper, but less exhaustive).
There's also an
accelerated
introduction and an
annotations page for
your browsing pleasure.
Perl
Where better to go than
NASA for a
description of this space-age shell language thingy?
Well, maybe
Nexor would be better
if you can't wait for the transatlantic stuff.
Shells
At the minute we only have references for
sh,
csh and
tcsh, but there
will be more along in a little while.
Unix
Unix Guru Universe
and the
vi lovers' home page
and
FAQ.
There's also some useful stuff at the
unix / net / hack page.
Linux
A few things which are specific to
Linux
and therefore not mentioned above. One worthwhile resource is the
Linux Applications and Utilities Page
which has all sorts of goodies free to download.
Or, more specifically, some
scientific
applications on Linux
Among the on-line publications dealing with Linux is the
Linux Gazette.
X11
A big list of
Window Managers for X is
available.
There's also a
color test, so you can tell what your rgb's look like.
Kermit
All you ever wanted to know about the file transfer program and then
some from Columbia.
Companies
- Digital. Browse past and present copies of
DEC News,
or go straight to their
homepage.
There's also an
OpenVMS freeware
page.
- Sun World Online,
for all the indpendent Sun-related news.
- Kovach Computing.
Statistical packages abound!
- Netpartners.
These are the boys who deal in all the ip stuff including
firewalls and routers.
- The
XOpen organisation. Not strictly a
company, but worthy of inclusion nonetheless.
HTML tutorials and information
There's the
NCSA help page or a
Tutorial on building mosaic documents. If you prefer you can jump straight to the
HTML primer or
JHU/APL's
WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation.
LaTeX
The full docs for
LaTeX2e
are available online. There is also NASA's Hypertext version.
Miscellaneous
Pete Houston ---
Comments welcomed