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[Ted Roche]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Christopher Chisholm wrote:

> Also, do you feel like cross-platform programming languages/APIs/ 
> etc could ever do as good a job at providing developers with an  
> easy to work with solution across hardware and operating systems?

I think it depends on what the developers are trying to do. If you're  
trying to do intense low-level processing, you need to have different  
code for a 100 MHz RISC chip than a dual-core 3 GHz AMD and deal with  
all the -endian issues, -bit-ness  and so forth. Same issues will  
come up if you're trying to push the hardware for 3-D rendering.  
However, if you're trying to develop a rich-client data entry app  
with text boxes, dropdowns, grids and canvases, there are already  
toolkits out there like wxWidgets that can abstract a lot of that for  
you.

FireFox is another preferred cross-platform client <s>.

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com