Greg writes:

> [Stroustrup] expressed his view that portability meant that the application
>could be moved from one platform to another with one department-week of
>effort, indicating that he expected some code work on the port to be the
>norm.

If you listen to the FSF and CYGNUS, you'll hear them touting that you
should write your software to a compiler environment such as GCC. Then,
if GCC and the requisite tools get ported to another environment, you
can then easily move software to that platform.

I'm beginning to believe in that, too.

Regards,


M.