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Some interesting excerpts :

Dan Pop  <Dan.Pop@cern.ch> wrote: in article 
<9602121654.AA02634@ues5.cern.ch>, 

   
   It's damn easy to write non-trivial portable ANSI C.  All you have to do
   is not to rely on platform-specific features (size of certain types,
   byte sex, etc) and functions.  Contrary to what some people believe, C is
   more than a high-level assembler and there are plenty of applications
   which can be implemented in portable C (I wrote a crossassembler for an
   embedded controller which ran without a single #ifdef on VAX/VMS, RSX-11M
   and MSDOS, despite all the differences between these platforms).
   

Also, an excerpt from what
Don Pop, danpop@mail.cern.ch wrote in the following thread :

   >Newsgroups:comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
   >Subject: Re: intel delays P7 until late 1998
   >Date: 14 Feb 96 13:34:43 GMT


   And, of course, I wrote Unix software myself.  Software that had to run
   on only 7 different Unix flavours.  It took a little bit more than
   "little trouble" to get it working on all 7 platforms and keeping the
   code reasonably clean.  Even functions from the standard C library are
   not available on systems which claim POSIX compliance or do not behave
   as required by the C standard.


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-arun gupta