________________________________________ From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:08 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys
On 03/16/2017 02:54 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> Porting to diverse architectures is still a great way to find >>> latent bugs. >> >> Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse *operating >> systems*, let alone architectures. > > I'm one of the folks that works on LCDproc. Part of the release > testing I do is to compile it on things that aren't just "yet > another Linux box". Of all the use-cases, I'm pretty sure that it's > going to work on Debian-flavored things and if that ever breaks, it's > going to be the one thing that gets fixed first. Sadly (or happily--take your choice), architectures aren't nearly as diverse as they used to be. Ones complement, decimal, six-bit characters... And people who weren't there can't understand why FORTRAN was the closest thing to a "portable" language... __________________________________________ Not even close to COBOL. :-) bill
