walterbyrd wrote: > On May 18, 2:17 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Python is Portable - C is probably the only more portable language > > Small quibble: IMO, although C runs on many platforms, I don't think C > code is typically portable between platorms. Unless you are doing > something very simple. If you write something with Visual Studio to do > something fairly advanced on Windows, I don't think the same, > unmodified, code will usually run on UNIX, or MS-DOS. Maybe if you use > pure ANSI C, but I don't think many people do that. > Surely the fact that Python is available on so many platforms implies that C is a fairly portable language. I realise that you have to take platform specifics into account much more than you do in Python, but I do feel you are being somewhat unfair to C.
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