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- From: steidl@centuryineter.net
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: *FINAL* ANSI C++ Standard: When???
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 10:10:46 GMT
- Organization: Century Internet
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- >I don't think the ISO/ANSI C++ standard was ever scheduled for 10/95;
- >nobody (least of all Bjarne Stroustrup) imagined that standardization
- >could go so quickly. In D&E, for example (published in 1994), he
- >wrote "The original aim of the committee was a draft standard for
- >public review in late 1993 or early 1994 with the hope of an official
- >standard about two years later. This was an ambitious schedule for
- >the standardization of a general-purpose programming language. To
- >compare, the standardization of C took seven years. The current
- >schedule, which I think we have a good chance of meeting, calls for
- >delivery of a draft standard for public review in April 1995."
-
- That's funny. Section 5.4 page 129 of my copy of D&E (with the 1994 publishing
- date) contains the above quote exactly as you stated, except that it says
- "The current schedule, which I think we have a good chance of meeting,
- calls for delivery of a draft standard for public review in September of 1994."
-
- Did you just accidentally type in "April 1995", or were multiple versions of
- this book published in 1994?
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