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"John McCabe" <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> My 'blinding flash' was being able to write a simple little utility,
> compile it on SunOS, have it run correctly (admittedly on the second
> attempt), then compile and run the same source code on a PC and have
> it run correctly! Until then I was very sceptical. I knew the utility
> was needed on SunOS and PC and the only compilers we had for both
> machines were Ada ones so it had to be Ada.

This reminds me of a discussion I was having with a C++ programmer about
porting a C++ application.  He said that porting their sizable C++
application only took a few weeks.  He thought this was pretty good.  As I
told him, I ported an Ada application of similar size, it took a few hours
(I had to re-write the interface to sockets from Win32 to Linux).

Steve
(The Duck)

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> John McCabe
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