On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Fri, Jul 04, 2003:
> [snip snip]
> > So "portable" in the Java/Python/etc sense means *portable across a
> > limited, albeit maybe wide enough, range of platforms*. This is a very
> > different notion of portability than that of, say, ISO C.
>
> Which is only portable across a limited, albeit maybe wide
> enough, range of platforms which have a C compiler (which happens
> to be a widely implemented language, but I don't think it exists
> for PalmOS, for example (PalmOS C is not ISO C, ifI'm not
> mistaken)).
>
The PalmOS SDK is based on gcc. I don't know if it supports all the ANSI C
functions, but I think it does.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Also, to write a portable ISO C program you must use only a small
> subset of libraries, which is not nearly useful enough, unlike
> those of interpreted languages such as Perl and Java (whether
> they are truly interpreted or not).There are still issues like
> different formats of filenames, so maybe the solution is to have
> portable environments such as Inferno ;)
>
> Vadik.
>
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