C. Jtux: A Java/Jython Interface to Standard UNIX Functions
Thirty years ago, when UNIX was new, almost all UNIX application programming was in C, and C is still the “UNIX language,” in that the principal UNIX standards use C, UNIX kernels are written in C, and most UNIX programming books, such as this one, show all their examples in C. Today, however, much, if not most, UNIX programming is in anything but C: C++, Java, Perl, Python, Jython,1 PHP, and so on.
1. Jython is an implementation of Python, written in Java, that runs in the Java environment, so any Java class can be accessed directly. For example, in Jython you write your user interface using AWT or Swing, rather than with Tkinter. That’s why Jtux works with Jython just as well as with ...
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