Solutions
These programming issues have perplexed developers for a number of years, and several techniques have already been developed to address them. For example:
Representation standards, such as eXternal Data Representation (XDR) and Network Data Representation (NDR), address the issue of passing data types between different machines. These standards compensate for issues such as big/little endian and different word sizes.
Language standards, such as ANSI C, allow the distribution of source code across compilers and machines. They permit source code to be recompiled on different machines and with different libraries without the need to modify the source files.
Architecture standards, such as the Distributed Computing Environment's (DCE) Remote ...
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