Software porting is evil
14th Sep 2005, 14:44 GMT
Although I love writing code, I hate porting code. To me, the least enjoyable task in software development is crawling through an application, usually one that I didn’t write, trying to figure out what compile-time errors really mean, and tracing back the origins of puzzling run-time results. What has always fueled my dislike for porting code is that, having cut my teeth on systems and software built for portability and interoperability, I know that for the great majority of project types, porting is a necessity created by operating systems and development tool vendors. Yet the technology exists to take porting, and meticulous platform validation, out of the software development cycle.
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