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Joe, ...and that's why phrases like "platform-independent" and (my favorite) "Write Once, Run Many" leave me alternatingly shivering and laughing... Java?!? Pshaw. Give me RPG. Rory On 12/10/06, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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