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FreeBSD Developers’ Handbook The FreeBSD Documentation Project.

FreeBSD offers an excellent development environment. Compilers for C and C++ and an assembler come with the
basic system, not to mention classic UNIX tools such as sed and awk. If that is not enough, there are many more
compilers and interpreters in the Ports collection. The following section, Introduction to Programming, lists some of
the available options. FreeBSD is very compatible with standards such as POSIX® and ANSI C, as well with its own BSD heritage, so it is possible to write applications that will compile and run with little or no modification on a wide range of platforms.