On Monday, September 16, 2002, Tom Uban wrote:
> At 11:11 AM 9/16/2002 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> > Rumor has it that Jeffrey Sharp may have mentioned these words:
> > > I suggest you make it platform-independent (e.g. Java).
>
> Hmm. Well I would actually guess that while C (in which the assembler is
> already written) is not quite as portable as Perl (from the it runs
> without modification standpoint), there are probably more C
> implementations than there are Perl, for a wider variety of machines.
You know, you're right. There's no reason to use anything other than
standard C and its library. It's a fancy assembler that needs anything more
than that.
> BTW, what is off topic about any of these discussions?
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Absolutely nothing.
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Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 13:21:17 BST