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- From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 09:17:30 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829628741@schonberg> <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829687209@schonberg> <4l2rvoINN7os@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- On Wednesday, April 17, 1996, Kazimir Kylheku wrote...
- > In article <dewar.829687209@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu>
- wrote:
- >
- > >In the case of the Ada standard, we just insisted to ISO that the
- standard
- > >must be freely available. It was a hard sell, but being insistent can
- pay
- > >off!
- >
- > What do you suppose would happen if some anonymous individual took an
- ISO
- > document (like say the C standard, 9899), banged off the requisite TeX
- or
- > troff code to clone it and then freely distributed it all over the
- place?
- > --
- > I'm not really a jerk, but I play one on Usenet.
- >
- You can get 9899 for 30 bucks at a bookstore. Herbert Schildt wrote an
- annotated version, much more readable than the standard alone. And $30 is
- cheap for computer books.
-
- And I'm sure your suggestion has already been done.
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