° Professional, experienced programmers interested in supporting their software on as many platforms as possible ° Programmers, engineers and project leads who must design cross-platform software from the ground up ° Programmers, engineers and project leads who must move large amounts of code from one platform to another

Write Portable Code

Name: Write Portable Code
Author: Brian Hook

A Guide to Developing Software for Multiple Platforms

von Brian Hook

Portable software development is the task of writing software that runs on a broad range of computer systems, as opposed to running only on a single system (e. g. Windows).
Write Portable Code contains the lessons, patterns, and knowledge for developing cross-platform software that programmers usually must acquire through sheer trial and error. This book is targeted at intermediate- to advanced-level programmers.
KEY SELLING POINTS While many books exist that address individual platforms, none discuss cross-platform software design and implementation. By using this book, programmers will be able to:

° avoid common portability mistakes when starting out a new project ° re-factor existing, non-portable code so that it can be easily transplanted to new platforms ° greatly expand the target market for their products ° find bugs masked by platform specific behaviors ° retain flexibility by not becoming married to a specific development environment or target platform