Re(2): Of myth and reality

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> keeps trying to correct me on developing 
Macintosh "fat binary" applications. I've poked around Apple's developer 
information, and here's how they described it:

>> For the most part, the programming APIs are the same for each processor, 
so you 
>> can write one set of sources that applies to both processor families. 
Moreover, you 
>> can handle slight target differences with conditional compile directives.

So I concede Jan is right, for the most part 8^) But my point about 
single-sourcing is reinforced. Write-once, compile-many is single-sourcing, 
and we both agree on that. However, if you write a block of text that can be 
printed as is, but is only good for the most part online, and has slight 
differences in a different target medium, the value of maintaining a single 
source is diminished.

          -- Steve

Steven Jong--"Typo? What tpyo?"
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