Quoting from "The Practice of Programming" by Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike: Finally, and most important, a portable program is a better program. The effort in

Quoting from "The Practice of Programming" by Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike: Finally, and most important, a portable program is a better program. The effort invested to make a program portable also makes it better designed, better constructed, and more thoroughly tested. The techniques of portable programming are closely related to the techniques of good programming in general.