At 01:43 PM 5/3/95 -0700, Elbert E Silbaugh wrote:
>of XL's was to be able to make it easy to go forward in life by using
>routines already designed/written/tested/inuse. Doesn't sound to me
>like a forward thinking concept (to not have XL capability). However,
>if they don't have XL cap, then what about NL capability? If not
>NL -- well, what do they do? If they have NL cap, then why can't
>they use XL files?
>
XL's and XL capability is NOT PORTABLE!
 
It's taken years for HP to get the message that people wanted portability.
If you want to write portable code, or port code, you can't have special
language features for XL's because other platforms don't have XL's.
 
(grouch off)
 
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