RE: Legacy question

From: Rory Hewitt

As for C... well if it's an ANSI-compliant application written using
'standard' API's etc, it should be usable on a lot of platforms, now and
in
the future. Mind you, how many C business applications really are
ANSI-compliant?!?

Yup, that's the kicker.  That's just like how many ANSI-compliant SQL
applications are there?  Zero.  Because once you dumb yourself down to ANSI
standards, your applications tend to run like molasses.  C isn't quite as
bad, but it's often a lot easier to use OS-specific calls that to use the
ANSI equivalent (and, too, lots of programmers don't even know what ANSI
compliance is, much less why they should code to it).

Joe