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Ian Darwin

Ian Darwin

Ian Darwin

C

by Ian Darwin - Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 4:21 PM
 
C is a medium-level programming language invented by Dennis Ritchie around 1973 at Bell Laboratories. Created to be the implementation language for the UNIX operating system, C went on to become one of the most widely-used programming languages worldwide in the 1980's, having been gradually supplanted for applications development both by its offspring C++ and Java and by scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP, the latter being the language that Moodle itself is written in.
Ian Darwin

UNIX

by Ian Darwin - Friday, 4 March 2005, 6:19 AM
 
UNIX is a computer operating system that originated around 1970 at Bell Laboratories and has been in continuous use and development since.
Linux is a rewrite of UNIX, whereas FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris, among others, are descendants of the original UNIX implementation.

Today UNIX and Linux run the majority of servers and other "infrastructure" on the Internet, but is also used on a lot of desktop systems (including Mac OS X, the #2 best-selling commercial operating system in the world).
Idoia Puente

Idoia Puente

Idoia Puente

RELOAD

by Idoia Puente - Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:21 PM
 

Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery