How are computer languages written?

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@Derleth

Ubuntu is a Linux distro, meaning it’s the Linux kernel plus a lot of other software to make it usable. Linux is a variety of Unix but don’t tell the lawyers that: The name ‘Unix’ is owned by The Open Group and the Linux development team hasn’t licensed it. In every way that matters, though, Linux is a Unix.

And Mac OS X 10.5 running on Intel hardware is Unix (with eye candy on top). It’s passed the tests and bears the Unix mark, licensed from the Open Group. Furthermore, I also run Windows XP on the same machine. So my Mac is a PC and also a Unix workstation.

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@Chronos

I should really know better than to oversimplify like I did, in this crowd. I did not know, though, that trig functions are implemented in hardware nowadays… That’s interesting. Nor did I know that c++ stores actual meaty source code in the .h files.

It’s usually due to templates. STL as well as the Boost libraries have a good deal of functionality in the header files, though they still have some code in libraries that are linked in at link- or load-time.