Ross Cameron wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net > <mailto:eagir...@cox.net>> wrote: > > ---------------------(snip)--------------------- > There are apps on Windows for which "porting" to OpenBSD would be > roughly > equivalent to "porting" to NetWare Virtual Loadable Module. > > Maybe he doesn't mind doing it all over from scratch, but that's > about what it > might turn out to be. > > > True but then again I generally find that rewriting and targeting the > code for portability and re-use is worth the efforts in the long run. > > Painting you're self into a corner with regards to coding > standards/languages/host OS are generally just a headache waiting to > happen in the years to come. I am sympathetic with that POV. It's part of why I decided to learn Perl instead of VB when I wanted to automate accounts on a Windows web server. When I had to clean up and migrate a Linux web server years later (without having meaningful Linux experience), I was very happy about my choice.
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