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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:43 -0800, Keith Bierman wrote:
> Of course, there are people who aren't trying to write portable code.
> They often live to regret it ;> 

In the early 1970's, when I first joined the computational mathematics
group at JPL, we urged the Voyager project not to use every cool
nonstandard feature of the Univac Fortran compiler or the even more coll
Athena Fortran compiler -- and they had as many as any other of the era.
We urged them to run their code through PFORT, a Fortran 66 portability
checker from Bell Labs.  They ignored us.  Their codes were trapped on
Univac 1100/2200 architecture because they couldn't get funding to
convert it.  Their ClearPath 2200 went out the door about two years ago,
more than 30 years after the Voyager launch and more than 35 years after
we warned about portability.