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users that can access the software. We wish to find out why developers are
constrained to create software in this fashion, limiting use of the
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The code required to support these features is likely to be as
extensive as the platform-independent code, so the benefit of keeping
some code portable is not particualy large.

For efficiency reasons, it is often necessary to write even potentially
non-platform-dependent code in platform dependent ways.

New platforms are generally more capable than old ones. For marketing
reasons, it is often necessary to completely rewrite to take advantage
of the new platform's features before releasing a new version of the
program (this applies especially to consumer products such as games).

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The number of programs which may be written using extensions is as near
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In these circumstances, the word "most" is of little value.

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