Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl & Databases

[aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)]

Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> writes:

>Yes, well, the point is that it is not portable to _all_ other platforms.

When someone decides to write something to be "portable", they have to
decide "portable to what". The more systems you want the code to be
portable to, the more work you need to do.

Also, portability, and which platforms it needs to be portable
between, needs to be an upfront objective. At my work, we have some
code that is portable between 16-bit DOS, a Motorola 68k derivitive,
and some funky 8 bit microcontroller. There is no way that this would
have been possible without keeping in mind all of the intended
platforms.

If Windows, the Mac, and Unix does things differently (and so
inherently unportable) they only thing to do is to separate away from
the rest and to build your own portable interface to it.
-- 
Andrew Langmead

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