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Re: Your opinion of Assembly:

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Jan 3rd, 2007
A Definition <of portability>

An application is portable across a class of environments to the degree that the effort required to transport and adapt it to a new environment in the class is less than the effort of redevelopment.

Since it requires a 100% rewrite of assembly language programs to port from one platform (e.g. 80x88) to another (e.g. AIX Unix), assembly language, by definition, is unportable.
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