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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
Path: blackbush.xlink.net!slsv6bt!news
From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
In-Reply-To: Larry Weiss's message of Mon, 04 Mar 1996 12:21:52 -0600
Message-ID: <KANZE.96Mar6195502@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>
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Organization: GABI Software, Sarl.
References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <4hdhgm$6vq@solutions.solon.com>
<1996Mar403.23.06.8316@koobera.math.uic.edu>
<4he37i$a0u@solutions.solon.com> <4hf9m1$fp8@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
<313B34C0.2B6C@oc.com>
Date: 06 Mar 1996 18:55:02 GMT
In article <313B34C0.2B6C@oc.com> Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> writes:
|> Thomas Koenig wrote:
|> >
|> > In comp.std.c, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) wrote:
|> > >It is, in no place, unreasonable to assume that C means "ANSI C".
|> >
|> > I usually prefer "ISO C", but that's a very minor point, I think :-)
|> I use "Standard C" and do hope that there is only one standardization
|> process that has that charter.
From what I have heard, there almost were two C standards, one ANSI,
and one, different, ISO. It was only a remark made in passing in the
ANSI committee that made the committee aware that the standard they
were about to pass would not be adapted `as is' by ANSI. Adding the
internationalization aspects that ISO required probably cost ANSI
about a year, but it did avoid two divergent standards.
The current C++ standardization effort, and I imagine, the next
version of the C standard, are being developed as a joint effort from
the beginning, in order to avoid this kind of problem.
--
James Kanze Tel.: (+33) 88 14 49 00 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr
GABI Software, Sarl., 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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