Free Software Media

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கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் கோட்பாட்டின் முன்னோடியான ரிச்சர்ட் எம் ஸ்டால்மேனின் கட்டுரைகளின் தமிழாக்கங்களை கொண்ட முதல் படைப்பு. கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் என்றால் என்ன, அதன் இன்றியமையாமை என அனைத்து விஷயங்களையும் விளக்கும் நூல்.

தமிழாக்கம்: ம ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்

This manual provides a tutorial introduction to the GNU C and C++ compilers, gcc and g++.

Many books teach the C and C++ languages, this book explains how to use the compiler itself. Based on years of observation of questions posted on mailing lists, it guides the reader straight to the important options of GCC!

Concisely written, with numerous easy-to-follow "Hello World" examples.

Now with extensive new sections on error messages, portability and floating point arithmetic!

This tutorial provides an introduction to Python, an easy to learn object oriented programming language. It covers the 2.5 release of Python.

The author of this manual, Guido van Rossum, is the inventor of Python. Fred L. Drake, Jr. is the official editor of the Python documentation.

You can examine the contents of the printed book here,

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This manual describes how to compare and merge files using GNU diff and patch.

It includes an extensive tutorial that guides the reader through all the options of the diff and patch commands. Later chapters cover powerful time-saving techniques such as automatic merging of divergent branches of a source tree.

This is a printed copy of the official GNU diffutils manual. It documents all the diffutils programs (diff, cmp, sdiff, diff3), plus GNU patch. The versions covered are the 2.8 release of GNU diffutils and 2.5 release of patch.