tibbetts's Journal: Time to learn GCC

My next work project involves rewriting in C++ a system that's currently in Java. I'm sure that despite having used it at school for a couple of years, and even teaching intro-level CS courses using it, I'm going to need some brushing up. One thing in particular to learn quickly is gcc, since my school (and thus the class that I taught) used Visual C++. Now it's time to drop the GUI hand-holding and learn how a real compiler works. Wish me luck.

I'm looking forward to having verbose compiler warning and errors again, after having worked with Java's lame error messages for so long.