On Fri, October 26, 2007 12:48 am, Bob La Quey wrote: >> >> Let's take this line of reasoning to its extreme... Why not just stay in >> assembly if you got a bucket full of useful assembly routines? >> >> Chris > > Mainly because you lose machine portablity.
Portability exists on a sliding scale. In my experience (from least to most): asm (tied) SQL C perl (mostly because the M$ perl we use at work is buggy, but also because perl allows posix-only calls) Tcl/Tk (I think I may have had to change one routine in my whole experience to get from Linux to M$ -- everything else has just worked) -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
