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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:01:20 +0200
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Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

"[..]

If it ports among Unices, it's portable.
[..]"

and

"[..]
Unices are the only family of OSes that have real standards,
followed by many OSes."

There used not be Unices. There was the one UNIX. AT&T let vendors
change the source code for their distributions and there were
Unices. You are wrong on this about portability: the family
you mention is a group of near identikit OSes which for
portability now need recompiling (instead of being binary
compatible, when on same processor, as the earlier incarnation
as a single OS).