Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)


24 Nov 1995 10:14:42 GMT

In article ic2@bubba.NMSU.Edu, jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) writes:
>Bruce Stephens (bruce@liverpool.ac.uk) mentioned on Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:55:00 GMT in rec.arts.int-fiction that::
>> I'd prefer a reimplementation in C, preferably with the core of the
>> code #ifdefless. I
>
>Sadly, this is impossible if you want to be portable even only among UNIX
>platforms. At the moment, the large majority of #ifdef's support
>portability. And really, it's not that hard to get the hang of.
>

I wouldn't say it is impossible. The implementation of Tcl (Tool Command
Language) has a very clean interface to various variants of Unices, so that
most of the code is mainly #ifdefless. (BTW, the source code for Tcl is
the best written C program I've ever seen, in terms of maintainbility and
readability. It is sheer joy reading it!)

Bjorn Gustavsson