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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 09:14:42 GMT
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- On Tuesday, April 16, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote...
- > "You still have to buy them from the IEEE. They are reluctant to
- > give them away because document sales pay for a significant
- > portion of IEEE's support for standards."
- >
- > To me, this is a terrible way to deal with standards. It is very
- important
- > to make standards freely available if they are to have maximum impact.
- > This can certainly be achieved, as has been demonstrated by the Ada 95
- > ANSI/ISO standard, which is available freely from the net, and can be
- > copied by anyone without charge.
- >
- >
- Again, standards are for compiler/OS vendors, not programmers.
- Vendors have lots of money. Programmers don't.
- Go to Border's and buy a book by a smart programmer who's deciphered the
- standards and translated them into English.
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