Book on Microsoft C

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <225800146 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
> "Portability" is a word seldom heard outside the academic discussions
> of Usenet.

Gasp!  Portability is vitally important in the commercial world
for those who don't want to reinvent the wheel.  Sure, there will
indeed be areas of non-portable code (machines *do* differ) but
intelligent implementers know how to partition these out to minimize
the conversion work.

It's been my experience that "portability" is almost unheard of
*within* the academic community (not the net.folks, just students
in general).

     Steve

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