> Philip Taylor writes: > > >> b) please lets have portable programs written in the genuinely > > >> popular langauges, viz TeX or C++ > > > > Please let's have portable programs written in the genuinely > > PORTABLE languages; popularity is completely irrelevant. > > no, its not irrelevant at all. if language X is popular, the reliable > compilers/interpreters become widely available. hence the program becomes > portable. its called a _de facto standard_..... Umm, aren't "reliable" and "C++ compiler" contradictory terms, by the very nature of the language? Robin (sitting in Stroustrup's old seat) Fairbairns