Frank Nordberg wrote:
| James Allwright wrote:
| > Unless it has changed radically since I last looked, it is a source code
| > distribution that will compile and run on anything with a C compiler...
|
| That's really great, but there's still a minor problem.
|
| One of the basic ideas behind ABC is that it's for everyone, and - as
| hard as it is for us to believe - there is, even today, a small minority
| of computer users that feel slightly uneasy when asked to compile the
| software themselves...
Great! Someone provides a program that solves the problem of binary
incompatibility by supplying the source in ANSI C. Several people
report compiling it on various obscure systems without any problems.
So the programmer gets criticised for writing a program that needs to
be compiled.
Ya sure can't win at this game. ;-)
(I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to perl, just for the
yuks, and for extra portability. Then it wouldn't have to be
compiled. But I bet I'd get flamed because perl doesn't come
pre-installed on all possible computer systems. ;-)
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