Mar 10 2010

Having fun with gcc and make

Back to basics


I’ve been an IT professional for 6 year now and I’ve grown to love the scripting/programming language PHP. A lot of you use languages like these for easy and quick web development.

But we often forget that C/C++ is the foundation of these modern creations. Although I have had some C++ training in school but got alienated from it over the years. It was actually the love for PHP that got me back into C/C++. When compiling PHP and its set of extension I got into contact again with this fabulous language.

But this blog post isn’t entirely about C and C++. My goal is put gcc (the compiler par exelence) in the spotlight.
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