• Re: What is portability?

    From James Kuyper@21:1/5 to Phillip Frabott on Fri Nov 29 18:47:57 2024
    On 11/29/24 16:34, Phillip Frabott wrote:
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    To me, Portability means that it is OS agnostic.

    The OS is only o part of the problem. Two different implementations
    targeting the same OS can be incompatible with each other, in ways that
    require code to be carefully written to work as intended with both implementations.

    Portability is not a yes/no characteristic. Every working program has a
    set of implementations that can translate it and execute it as desired.
    Almost every program has some implementations that cannot. A program is
    more portable if it has a wider variety of platforms to which it can be
    ported. You need to specify what set of platforms you want your code to
    be portable to, before you can decide whether is is portable to them.

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