Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again! Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 16:49:48 GMT References: <1990Jul12.012730.4248@Stardent.COM> <64044@sgi.sgi.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <64044@sgi.sgi.com> karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) writes: > I still hope for a day when programming professionals will evaluate > programs by how well they perform their intended function, not by how the > souce code is indented and commented, or how portably they were > written. (This is, by the way, how people who purchase software > usually evaluate it). You mean like the people who buy Word Perfect because it runs on just about anything? The people who can't upgrade their software when they switch from DOS to UNIX, Windows, or OS/2? Portability means repeat business. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.