In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/04/2007
at 08:22 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Yea, like Perl or Java!
The issues are quite different. There may be portability issues in
both, but they are far more tractable than the issues in translating
assembler[1] or machine code across architectures. BTDTGTCA.
>Yea, like Perl or Java! It does work (poorly). Perl may have
>problems due to "bad coding" based upon an assumption of "ASCII" vs.
>"EBCDIC".
Are you sure that it isn't ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 vs EBCDIC?
[1] Far easier than machine code, but some shops have programs for
which they've lost the source code.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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