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Re: Your opinion of Assembly:

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Jan 8th, 2007

>>If we confine our discussion to x86 hardware
claiming a program is portable makes no such restriction, and neither do I.

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Software developers often claim that the software they write is portable, meaning that little effort is needed to port it to a new environment. The amount of effort actually needed will depend on the extent to which the original environment (the source platform) differs from the new environment (the target platform),

You are of course correct that 80x88 assembly is portable between os that reside on the 80x88 architechure. But that is not what I implied when I said that assembly is not portable. To be completely portable it would have to run on any archatechure with little more effort than recompiling or reassembling it. That is impossible with assembly. C language, for example, is portable as long as (1) the programmer sticks to ansii C standard functions and (2) there is a c compiler targeted for the platform.

Last edited by Ancient Dragon : Jan 8th, 2007 at 10:51 pm.

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