From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab3c50aebe0aa719 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-21 10:16:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!news.stealth.net!grolier!newsfeed.planete.net!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:56:45 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9gt90e$b99$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> <9gt1hj$86g$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 993142606 11561 136.170.200.133 (21 Jun 2001 16:56:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jun 2001 16:56:46 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8988 Date: 2001-06-21T16:56:46+00:00 List-Id: Well, if I said "I just ported my code from VMS to VMS!" would you be very impressed? But somehow saying "I ported from Unix(Sun) to Unix(HP)!" is cause to celebrate? That's the problem that exists in the Unix-like world because of the multiple flavors of it. The same (almost) problem exists porting between different versions of Windows - but at least there the whole thing is under one roof. OTOH, I never had any trouble taking my code from VMS(VAX) to VMS(Alpha) or porting it upward in version numbers. Whatever troubles may have come up were so trivial as to hardly be noticed and certainly not something to brag about. Ahhhhh.... If only DEC had made VMS available to the general public! (Oh, but then, it probably would have ended up in just as bad a shape as Unix is now...) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Olivier Devuns" wrote in message news:str8wdua2o.fsf@aonix.fr... > "Marin David Condic" writes: > > There's no such thing as portability, only software that's been ported. > Besides, I'm not under the impression that obstacles to porting were > put in purpose, by their respective authors, in most Unix flavors. Can the > same be said of some of the "other systems" ? >