Utility Libraries

• Many utility libraries exist, that could make a programmer's life easier.
  
  
• For C programming, 'glib' and 'gthread' (part of the GTK project) are examples of two such libraries. 'glib' supports various data structures (lists, queues, hashes, etc), portability macros, etc. 'gthread' supports abstractions over threading libraries.
  
  
• C++ programmers will find interest in the ACE library, which supports many abstractions for inter-process communications, socket programming, multi-threaded and multi-process constructs, etc.