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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Book on Microsoft C
Summary: What?
Message-ID: <1076@vsi.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 17:10:08 GMT
References: <754@oravax.UUCP> <225800146@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <225800146@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
> "Portability" is a word seldom heard outside the academic discussions
> of Usenet.

Gasp!  Portability is vitally important in the commercial world
for those who don't want to reinvent the wheel.  Sure, there will
indeed be areas of non-portable code (machines *do* differ) but
intelligent implementers know how to partition these out to minimize
the conversion work.

It's been my experience that "portability" is almost unheard of
*within* the academic community (not the net.folks, just students
in general).

     Steve

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