Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++

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From: "Mark Morgan Lloyd "
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 18:20

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Well, I can't really comment about C++, but if C were non-portable then 
all of the UNIX-related utilities- including TCP/IP as well as a lot of 
UNIX itself- would need changes each time they were moved to a new system.

I've got common code running on three different platforms after 
compilation using Modula-2, my verdict being that the language is pretty 
portable but the implementation details enforced by the compilers are 
anything but.

OTOH, I'm pretty sure that I would never have got a microkernel plus 
application ported between CPUs in a week irrespective of how good I was 
at C.

Mark Morgan Lloyd
mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or 
colleagues]

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Subject: Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++
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