Book on Microsoft C

[Doug Gwyn]

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.

That's utter nonsense.  Anyone concerned with getting his applications
to work on a wide variety of unlike systems quickly learns to care
about program and environment portability.  That doesn't necessarily
mean that code is ported with 0 adaptation, but rather that the changes
needed are designed to be minimal and cleanly isolated from the bulk of
the application.

There are numerous commercial software vendors who rely on portable C
programming practice as the basis for providing versions of their
products on as many popular machines as possible.