21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
4:31 a.m.
>True, but C itself if far from portable. The
endless maze of #ifdef's
>that are necessary to make a piece of source code portable among a limited
>set of machines and OS's are fine and dandy unless you have to support all
>those different permutations!
Well, that is what sizeof() and #ifdef are for! Liberal use of them!
Straight ANSI C must be the most portable language for
contemporary
computers. Java is written in it. :-) C++ is another matter, it still
has too many flavors. Depending on the app, portability can be a great
hassle (if you expect portable GUIs) or a non-concern (in command-line,
text-based apps).
C++ is also a bit portable, if you stay away from all of the object crap
(geeks gone bananas).
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net