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Guidelines for software portability
Author(s) -
Tanenbaum Andrew S.,
Klint Paul,
Bohm Wim
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380080604
Subject(s) - software portability , documentation , computer science , software engineering , programming language , operating system , software , architecture , geography , archaeology
The areas in which programs are most unlikely to be portable are discussed. Attention is paid to programming languages, operating systems, file systems, I/O device characteristics, machine architecture and documentation. Pitfalls are indicated and in some cases solutions are suggested.