From: emery@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Emery)
Subject: portability
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 09:35:18 EST [thread overview]
Date: Fri Dec 19 09:35:18 1986
Message-ID: <8612191435.AA16263@mitre-bedford.ARPA> (raw)
I wish I could honestly say "You can't be serious..." when you say that your
co-workers don't believe that a program in Ada (or any other HOL) will not
produce the same results when compiled into two different instruction set
architectures. Do your co-workers have doubts about Fortran? How about
Unix, which was originally implemented on a PDP11, and now runs on everything
from an IBM-PC to a Cray? Sure, there are machine dependencies that have to
be resolved, but I think that language portability has been pretty well proven
by now.
Unfortunately, I can believe that you know people who don't believe this. It's
a sad commentary on our profession that these people exist.
Dave Emery
MITRE Corp.
p.s. These are my opinions, not the opinions of MITRE Corp. the DoD, or anyone
else...
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1986-12-20 2:18 portability Barry Shein
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