PASCAL/FORTRAN/C++ compilers

Question

I am retired and having some time on my hands, got out my old DATA STRUCTURES textbooks from the 80s. I got to thinking how much I would like to revive my skills in PASCAL/C++ and use the techniques in the books. About 4 years ago, I bought a distribution of UBUNTU on DVD and successfully loaded it. I could never find any mention of how to do any development even though the literature seemed to imply that UBUNTU included these compilers. I gave up on this but recently decided to try again. What is the best way to do software developmemnt on UBUNTU?

Answer 1

I don't know much about Pascal on Ubuntu (or anywhere for that matter) but I use the Eclipse IDE for Java development so would probably go with Eclipse and the CDT (C/C++ Developers Toolkit) although Monodevelop is another option.

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php

Answer 2

It will be more easy for developer to use Synaptic package manager instead of Software Center which is prepared for general users. So you could search for *-dev libs, *-doc, IDE's...

sudo apt-get install synaptic

It up to you, but I suggest start testing IDE's then move to learn the underlaying CLI compilers and the development helpers (like: auto-tools, packaging...).

• PASCAL (free pascal IDE's): lazarus, fp-ide

  For user graphic interface development, you gonna see some difference then (Windows) in Linux most are using GTK libraries.

• FORTRAN (no IDE): gfortran (Fortran95 compiler)

  Using Gedit menu: View → Highlight Mode → Select: Fortran95

• C++ (There plenty of IDE's, Compilers, Editors..)

  g++ is the gnu c++ compiler (gcc c compiler)

  Geany is very simple IDE or editor. If you want very simple one like old style, Write-Compile-Run. (Most editors in Linux support code highlighting, You can use most of them)

  Eclipse with CDT plug-in is an advanced IDE

  Other IDE's: qtcreator (Qt GUI), netbean, anjuta (GTK+ GUI), codeblocks (wxWidget GUI), codelite, monodevelop (.NET, GTK GUI)..

Note:

Package names end with -dev are development headers & libraries, with -doc are documentations, most are development doc's, shares system libraries (dynamic) start or end with lib

You can even install all, try them for sometime and see what the best for you.

Update:

Concerning Ubuntu development (Debian Based) mainly: c, c++ & python

Other languages which have very good support: java, perl, ruby, vala, c#, lua, lisp, ...