Re: [Haifux] Intermingled code and declarations and gcc

2009-09-17 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
Hi Eli, Try -std=c99 flag. The C99 standard allows declarations everywhere. Shana Tova, Vadim -Original Message- From: haifux-boun...@haifux.org [mailto:haifux-boun...@haifux.org] On Behalf Of Eli Billauer Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:52 PM To: Haifa Linux Club Subject:

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + Linux guru

2009-10-15 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
Eclipse doesn't belong to the right tools, in my opinion. Why Eclipse doesn't belong to the right tools ? My naïve understanding is that Eclipse is Emacs of the 21-st century – it is open source, customizable etc., similar to Emacs; in addition to being graphical. Maybe I miss something -

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + Linux guru

2009-10-16 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
guy keren wrote: you can mention memory leaks if you want - but students don't care about them so much, because it doesn't break their programs. Starting from the Winter 2008-2009 semester, the memory leaks are checked in Matam (Introduction to Systems Programming) course and 1 point is

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
Eli, Will you teach anything specific to Linux or general Unix development tools ? If you will teach the general Unix, it is not really relevant to the students of the lecture the difference between Linux and Unix, so you probably can provide general Unix usage statistics to sell the students

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
I would like to present some points of a devil's advocate (some smart students can raise these counterclaims during the lecture) : 1. You can run batch files also on Windows (it for sure is less convenient than shell scripts on Unix, but it is not impossible) 2. You can use Ant

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
FYI – a nice article of Joel Spolsky about the differences between Unix and Windows - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html . Some quotes from the article: *By now, Windows and Unix are functionally more similar than different. They both support the same major programming

Re: [Haifux] [W2L Event] Monday 9/11, 18:30: FOSS Philosophy

2009-11-07 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
Orr, Orna, Is this lecture intended to be a lecture for convincing people new to FOSS to use FOSS or also a lecture with a discussion about cons of FOSS ? I would like to have some hard talk about FOSS since I have some reservations about it and would like to discuss them. However, I am afraid

Re: [Haifux] [W2L Event] Monday 9/11, 18:30: FOSS Philosophy

2009-11-07 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
that your lecture should be without cons. Regards, Vadim -Original Message- From: Orr Dunkelman [mailto:orr.dunkel...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 PM To: Vadim Eisenberg Cc: ladyp...@gmail.com; Haifux; Yousef Shajrawi Subject: Re: [Haifux] [W2L Event] Monday 9/11, 18