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- From: tottinge@csci.csc.com (Tim Ottinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 21:01:18 GMT
- Organization: CSC CIS - TRIS DIVISION
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- >>
- >> The portability issue is/was partially myth; it gave rise to
- >> non-computer people (and some who should have known better) saying
- >> things like "Write it in C so it will be portable". That's
- >> horse manure. It is easier to WRITE portable code in C because
- >> there are more C compilers, but that doesn't mean that C code
- >> is inherently more portable. The other thing about portability
- >> is the commercial part of the myth -- companies don't really
- >> want to change machines and operating systems every few years,
- >> that's for people who regard them as toys.
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- Funny. All of my portable C programs were written in C. :-)
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- We support multiple platforms simultaneously. If you stick to Standard C, or
- Standard C with POSIX_SOURCE then it moves rather easily from Unix to Unix.
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- Tim
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