John Chambers wrote:
>
> Great! Someone provides a program that solves the problem of binary
> incompatibility by supplying the source in ANSI C. Several people
> report compiling it on various obscure systems without any problems.
> So the programmer gets criticised for writing a program that needs to
> be compiled.
>
> Ya sure can't win at this game. ;-)
I had started to write a reply, but it seems Phil and Bryan got ahead of
me, and there's no need repeating what they said.
So let me come up with a challenge instead:
Whenever you (that is anyone) ports an ABC application, post it on the web!!!
Doesn't matter how obscure the OS is, there are always somebody else
who'd like to have it.
And e mail me about it so I can include it in the ABC applications datbase.
Haven't got a web site to put it? No worries. Just send it to me and
I'll add it to the Musica Viva software library.
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That being said, the main issue shouldn't really be software
portability, but *ABC* portability. Sure, it would be possible for any
abc user to have a dozen different applications to cope with various
incompatible abc dialects, but for some reason I feel that that would
defy the original intentions of the abc standard.
Frank Nordberg
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