Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:46:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> It's only compatible and portable on similar platforms. Any C
> code that chock full of Linux system calls won't portable to any
> other platform unless a (gasp) compatibility layer is written 1st.
That's why you don't do that, and write to the C standard and POSIX
instead. Once in a while you need a very small compatibility layer, but
this is more rare in well-written programs than you seem to think.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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