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Software portability
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<p>Software portability is a design objective for <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> to be easily made to run on different <a href="/facts/Computing_platform/DmKwp5Bk">platforms</a>. An aid to portability is the generalized <a href="/facts/Abstraction_(computer_science)/hAnxmJle">abstraction</a> between the application logic and <a href="/facts/Interface_(computer_science)/zdfp8unT">system interfaces</a>. When software with the same functionality is produced for several <a href="/facts/Computing_platform/DmKwp5Bk">computing platforms</a>, portability is the key issue for development cost reduction. </p>