Eclipse.org Project Pushes C/C++ Development on Linux

Jan 31, 2002, 17:00 (7 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Ed Scannell)

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"On the eve of this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, eclipse.org on Tuesday shipped what it believes is the first beta of a fully operational C/C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on Linux workstations.

"The new tool set, sponsored by IBM and Red Hat, is a multi-language tools environment intended to complement users' existing Java implementations, officials from both companies said.

"'Virtually every software development group we've spoken to says it is looking for an IDE that supports C and C++ in addition to Java,' said Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's CTO and founding Steward of eclipse.org. 'This includes projects built in-house and third party applications running on the gamut of enterprise servers to embedded platforms.'..."

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