version and debug statements

[Anders F Björklund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Shipping production code for an OS that has never been even tried on 
> that OS is not a good idea. In that case, having an assert in it *is* 
> better because it's a red flag for the maintainer of that OS that he's 
> got some work to do folding in new capability, and most importantly 
> testing it.

Hmm, that sounds like a lot of work...

So, basically, if I want portable code I should stick to C and Java ?
(C with autotools for feature detection, that is. For GNU platforms)

--anders