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<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Federico Mena Quintero</name>
<email its:translate="no">federico@gnome.org</email>
<years>2013</years>
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<desc>Data structures and utilities for C programs</desc>
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<title>GLib</title>
<p>
GLib is the most fundamental of all the GNOME libraries. It provides
simple data structures for C programs (linked lists, binary trees, hash
tables) and various utilities such as string manipulation functions.
</p>
<p>
If you are not writing C programs, you normally don't need to be concerned
with GLib. If you are, however, GLib will make your life as a C programmer
much easier.
</p>
<list style="compact">
<item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/">GLib reference manual</link></p></item>
</list>
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