Portability Quotes
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Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.
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More Portability Quotes
portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (1992-01-29). Post to comp.os.minix newsgroup. Retrieved on 2006-08-28. According to Torvalds, this was "tongue in cheek" (Ibid.)
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
andrew s. tanenbaum— In a Usenet message, 3 Feb 1992
portability should be the default.
larry wall— Usenet article <199711072201.OAA01123@wall.org> (1997)
