Programming Languages at the ACCC

This document lists the language compilers and tools are available through the ACCC at UIC.

This document lists the additional language compilers and tools are available at UIC. (By "additional", we mean compilers and tools the ACCC has installing separately, in addition to the ones that normally come with the various operating systems.)

In particular, the standard Unix shell scripts, languages, and programming tools, such as awk, ksh, and sed, are also available on the ACCC public workstations; they are not listed here.

These compilers and tools are:

• on one or more of the ACCC's public Unix workstations:
  • icarus.cc.uic.edu (students)
  • tigger.cc.uic.edu (faculty/staff)
  • argo.cc.uic.edu (Beowulf cluster; should be use for all larger projects; faculty and graduate students as recommended by a faculty member)
    
    
• on the ACCC public personal computers.

Also included are links to various programming language FAQs and other resources.

• cc, xlc, and c89 (IBM C compiler, tigger only)
• xlC (IBM C++ compiler, tigger only)
• cc (SunOS/BSD C compiler, icarus only)
• gcc and g++ (Gnu integrated C and C++ compiler, icarus, tigger, argo)
• Linda clc and the Portland Group Cluster Development Kit pgcc (C) and pgCC (C++) (argo only)



• on the ACCC public personal computers
  
  
• gdb (Gnu source code DeBugger, icarus, tigger, borg)
  
  
• C programming language FAQ 

• xlf (IBM FORTRAN compiler, tigger only) 
• f77 and f90 (FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 90, argo only)
• Linda flc and the Portland Group Cluster Development Kit pghpf (High performance Fortran), pgf77 (Fortran 77), and pgf90 (Fortran 90) (argo only)



• see also Note on Language Compilers on icarus
  
  
• on the ACCC public personal computers

• Java Developers Kit (icarus only)
  
  
• Java/Javascript FAQ

• xlp (IBM Pascal compiler, tigger only)
• see also Note on Language Compilers on icarus
  
  
• on the ACCC public personal computers

• perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language, icarus, tigger, argo)
  
  
• Perl language WWW home page

• rexx, Regina port of the REXX programming language (icarus, tigger, argo)
  
  
• REXX WWW home page and FAQ (Mike Cowlishaw, IBM UK Labs)
• six rules for beginning REXX programmers 
• REXX for Unix -- Regina documentation page

• tcl (The Programming Language)
• tk (tickle toolkit for tcl)

The icarus compilers listed above are "officially" installed on icarus and are included in everyone's default path. In addition to these, the standard Unix language compilers -- f77, pc, and so on -- are also installed on icarus, but they aren't in the default path. To use them, you must add their directory -- /opt/SUNWspro/bin -- to your PATH variable.

In your .profile file, add:

:/opt/SUNWspro/bin

to the end of your PATH=... statement.

The compilers and tools available in this directory all have man pages; they include f77 and f90, pc, and ratfor.

Check the following software lists for additional programming and language compilers and tools (such as python, which is available on icarus):

• programming and database on icarus
• programming and database on tigger
• programming and database on argo

Available science and math packages and libraries:

• science and math packages

Supercomputing and programming languages links:

• supercomputing and parallel computing research groups (CMU) 
• programming language research page (CMU)

Language FAQs:

• list of programming language FAQs 
• functional languages FAQ

Science, math, and programming language links:

• The MathWorks' math, science, and programming info directories: http://www.mathtools.net