21 Jan
2017
21 Jan
'17
6:25 a.m.
On 20 Jan 2017, at 19:38, Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As they say, 'ave a laugh, guv:
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43781
You have not understood the problem I was describing I think: things like POSIX or LSB do
not solve it: if they did it would be trivial to port <awful mass of scripts>
between platforms, and it is not, because <awful mass of scripts> will always rely
on behaviour which is outwith the standard, whatever the standard may be. These standards
solve the problem of making well-written code portable, but your bank is not held together
by well-written code, unfortunately.
An interesting approach would be platforms which only supported the standard they purport
to conform to (ie there would be no additional functionality at all): such platforms would
make porting things more easy, but they would also be mostly indistinguishable from each
other and thus eliminate most of the competition between vendors. They would also be
impossibly austere of course.