By M. Tim Jones. Here's what the O options mean in GCC, why some optimizations aren't optimal after all and how you can make specialized optimization choices for your application. [Linux Journal]

By Tom Tromey. This article provides a tour of how you would go about connecting your own compiler front end to GCC.

This article explores how some useful extensions to an open-source protocol analyzer in order to allow the extraction of OMG IDL (interface definition language) defined data types from TCP/IP traffic (using GIOP/IIOP) have been added.

A review by Bob Adkins published in Linux Journal of the book by Leen Ammeraal.

Brief article, explains what they are, and how and why their popularity is growing; with links and reader comments. Linux Journal.

Using Perl to perform networking tasks is easy. An article by James Lee.

Marjorie Richardson's interview covers subjects such as Wall's inspiration to write Perl initially, the evolution of the language, how the language is being used, and his personal life.

Article by Eric Raymond where he explains reasons that led him to switch from Perl to Python.

An Interview with Guido van Rossum. A conversation with the creator of Python about an effort to teach Python to non-computer science students.

An explanation of the mix-in programming style as applied in Python.