> -----Original Message----- > From: Victor Mote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: December 14, 2002 3:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Sun XSL Formatter > > > Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > > But can I point out that C is about as portable as it gets? > > Maybe someone on this list has time to throw xmlroff source code > into Visual > Studio & let us know how it goes :-)
I'll probably do just that. If it was well-written code then it'll compile. There is nothing OS-specific about XSL, barring optimizations. > Sorry, I don't mean to be smart. It certainly seems to me that > C-portable is > an entirely different concept than Java-portable. Sure, in a narrow sense. Binary rather than source. In practical terms C is considerably more portable. Java is basically a Windows and MacOS X VM. > Also, I didn't intend to /only/ highlight portability. Java has lots of > other advantages over C that are important to this kind of application. I > won't recite them here, since everyone on this list already knows them. We could debate that. :-) I spend a lot of time every week dealing with Java NPEs. Seriously, you're right. Java is better for this. Writing good C requires a lot of background. Arved --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
