Next Up on the System i5: Native GNU g++ and IBM XL C/C++

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 2, 2007 11:46 AM EDT
IT Jungle; By Timothy Prickett Morgan
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While the Java and C# programming languages and their respective Java Virtual Machine and Common Language Runtime environments for executing Java and C# programs get a lot of the glory these days, and there's plenty of excitement around PHP (also an interpreted language) as it moves into the commercial world from the Web, the simple fact remains that an awful lot of very good systems and application programs are still written in the C or C++ language. And that is why I think that IBM should offer support for a native, open source GNU g++ compiler on the System i.

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