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To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (17385)	2/11/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	of 24154

K.M - Can standards be sort of bypassed by writing code on a 'multi-platform' environment (like C++) where the different platform compiler takes care of the problem? That really just 'moves' the problem from that application programmer to the compiler programmer, but those are generally different people! The problem is that it's hard to write a program that actually does anything when you're only coding to the language standard. That's why there are things like the POSIX standards. They help quite a bit, but are subverted somewhat when a company like MSFT claims to be POSIX compliant, but you can't make any calls to the Win32 API within a POSIX program on NT. Note that I only heard this secondhand, not having done much (any) programming on NT. Given the woes of others I've observed trying to use freeware stuff on NT, I believe it. -justinb

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