begin quoting Chris Seberino as of Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:21:17AM -0700: > Ahh, if source will compile fine much of the time unaltered then > that is good enough. Source code compatibility is very nice.
It's an essential minimum requirement, surely. Of course, a diverse user-base is still essential, as otherwise source compatibility will be discarded in favor of features. > So I guess it is safe to say POSIX provides > "write once, compile (unchanged) everywhere" but not "write once, run > everywhere". In theory. -- _ |\_ In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. \| In practice, there is. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
