FAG> realised), so that I don't understand why is it so 
 FAG> important for a code to be portable......
When code is portable, it's usually re-usuable, a big thing in 
object-oriented languages, where code is moduled into smaller re-usable 
sections.  Thus, it's important to you that your code be portable to other 
programs that you write in the same language, and not neccessarily 
cross-platform.
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