PPC or i386 ?

[Norberto Quintanar]

This is one of the best explanations I've read on the whole
programming language "issue."  Thanks!

--- Geert Janssens <snipped> wrote:
> For completeness sake, I will elaborate a bit on this:
> 
> A source rpm contains the source code to a certain program. If the 
> source code is written with platform independence in mind, then you
> can 
> build the program on any platform it was designed for, be it PPC of
> x86 
> with the right tools on each specific platform.
> 
> This is rather general, so let's look at it a bit more
> specifically. 
> Platform independance is largely dependant on the program language
> being 
> used for the program.
> There are four main groups of programming languages I'll discuss
> here:
> - assembly language
> - higher level languages, such as C, C++, Cobol, Fortran, ...
> - java
> - scripting languages
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