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Re: portability

From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:26:25 +0100
Message-ID: <3E1B37F1.9020108@netscape.net>


Karsten Farrell wrote:
<snip>
>
> And HTML is so non-portable between web browsers as to be a joke. And
> lots of Java code has to be rewritten every time a new JDK comes out.
> And MS C++ with MFC is not portable to a Borland IDE. And in the old
> days I had to rewrite all my Sperry-Univac Fortran routines to make them
> run on CDC.

Whoooo! HTML is standard, M$ and Netscape choose to create browsers that did not abide the standard.

Frank Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 14:26:25 CST

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