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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Message-ID: <3802@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 20:47:16 GMT
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In article <1673@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
writes:
>The best way to learn to write portable code is to be required to port
>your applications to Vaxes, 68000s, and PCs. (I have all 3 on my desk!)

And VAX/VMS specifically.  Until you've ported to VMS you haven't
ported.  Really.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi