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Category 3,  Topic 3
Message 137       Fri Dec 22, 1989
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 07:02 PST


 JW via GS>
 >The tools should be there to create 'your' application on 'your'
 >processor, and the resultant code transport, unaltered to 'my'
 >processor.

 LB>...the ANSI Technical Committee is...making every attempt to keep
 LB>existing code compatible with ANS Forth.

 ZE> Maybe once the ANS Forth answer is in, loading source onto
 ZE> different Forth will be commonplace.



Portability is at the lowest level in BASIS10 that it has ever been. Don't ask
me to put X3.J14 in a contract to write a Standard Program. I can't take the
responsibility for my code working on a 3's excess machine architecture when
the only thing I know about that is it's name.

This year, portability is out, the virtual machine is out, vendor fiefdoms are
in.

Robert Berkey
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