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RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

What?  Strategic How?  What flexibility? 

Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770 845 9636  Fax:770 614 3496
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Subject: Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

I think platform nonspecificity is important from a strategic standpoint.
If your software can "live" anywhere, its chances of long-term survival
are better than if it is the software equivalent of a panda. Coding in
platform nonspecific languages does not limit future options in the same
way that coding in a language that only runs on, say, AS/400 would. Buying
this agility and flexibility may cost you some runtime efficiency, but I
think the general opinion is that this is a good trade in the long term.

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