Hullo Kurt Kuzba, hope you are having a nice day!!
26-Jan-98 02:52:26, Kurt Kuzba wrote to Fernando Ariel Gont
          Subject: Portability
 KK> Code is portable when you can compile it on several platforms. A
 KK> compiler may target several platforms, but that does not reflect
 KK> on the portability of the code being compiled. If you had a
 KK> compiler that would target OS/2 or DOS, then use libraries and
 KK> functions specific to that compiler, you could compile for more
 KK> than one platform, but only with that compiler. Any other compiler
 KK> would grind to a halt when attempting to link the other compiler's
 KK> proprietary code, to which it would not have access.
But if I write a program in PC's GW-BASIC, I can run it on a PC, and the
same code _*without*_ any modification can be compiled on my MSX with
MSX-BASIC....
So that I wonder if that's portability, too.....
I mean, I must use two compilers, as GW-BASIC produces code for 80x86
processors and MSX-BASIC produces code for Z80, but I can "port" my program
from PC to MSX...
 -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=-
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