/prog/ - Portability

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 1:46

If I want my program to be as portable as can possibly be without any modification, am I doomed to Java?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 2:16

Write your program as a POSIX shell script. sh is found on all POSIX compliant systems, which means your program will run practically anywhere.
sh is the standard command language interpreter!

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 2:42

C/C++ compiler available for any platform. Java only for x86 and ARM.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 2:56

>>1
http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 6:14

the most portable code would probable be pure ansi c.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 9:28

In addition, Perl has been ported to practically all platforms.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 10:09

>>5
The point is that no real software (that is, actually useful software) can be written with only the the functionality ANSI C provides.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 12:42

>>7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 13:45

>>8
We aren't talking about that, moron.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 13:51

>>7
It can and has been. It' just a bitch to do it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 14:02

most all scripting languages run on a vm and are more portable than Java, Python, Ruby, Lua, Javascript, Perl, etc

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 14:13

>>10
Hello worlds don't count.

Portability

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