On Sunday 09 November 2008 17:53, Napoleon wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > In a similar vein: contrary to Unix lore, most C apps are horribly > > non-portable, whereas COBOL apps are *very* portable. > > Contrary to popular lore, COBOL apps are typically no more portable than > C apps. Yeah, I've had plenty break when moved to a different COBOL runtime. The UNIX standard make a *lot* of requirements for portable C programs. Far beyond what is takes for gcc to accept the program OR what it takes Linux or BSD to run it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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