Pearson eText for Concepts of Programming Languages -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
Pearson eText for Concepts of Programming Languages -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
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ISBN: 9780135102268
Author: Robert Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON+
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Advantages and disadvantages of some programming environment:

A programming environment is a set of tools to develop and maintain programs in any language. Some of the environments may be very simple such as containing of only a file system, text editor, linker and compiler. While some other may have a variety of tools like debugger, memory and stack frame lookups and many others which can be accessed through graphical toolbars.

These types of environments make software development a relatively effortless process. So, it is evident that not only language but programming environment also plays a great role in software development and maintenance process. UNIX is a very popular programming environment which was originally written in C. UNIX was developed in 1970s and soon it became a very popular programming environment...

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