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  3. October 2005

RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

BPCS wasn't perfect, but the package started a headlong downslide with
the platform independence kool-aid.  I don't know where Riz Shakir is
these days, but wherever he is, there's a place to avoid.

Joe

> From: Al Mac
> 
> As for BPCS, yes there are microscopically few bugs, but some of them
are
> repeated 10,000 times in the same program, such as rounding in costing
and
> billing, a bug that got there thanks to platform-agnosticism.  (We are
on
> mixed mode version 405 CD)

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