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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Top 10 posters to comp.lang.c
- Date: 21 Feb 96 11:19:18 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4gd5j1INNj4f@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- >BTW, I sent some e-mail to this country's ISO representative regarding the cost
- >and procedure for obtaining the 9899:1990 document. No reply.
-
- This is what you deserve for not reading the FAQ of the newsgroup.
-
- 11.2: How can I get a copy of the Standard?
-
- [snipped part about how to get incredibly expensive copies from ANSI,
- ISO and friends]
-
- The mistitled _Annotated ANSI C Standard_, with annotations by
- Herbert Schildt, contains most of the text of ISO 9899; it is
- published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-881952-0, and sells
- in the U.S. for approximately $40. It has been suggested that
- the price differential between this work and the official
- standard reflects the value of the annotations: they are plagued
- by numerous errors and omissions, and a few pages of the
- Standard itself are missing. Many people on the net recommend
- ignoring the annotations entirely. A review of the annotations
- ("annotated annotations") by Clive Feather can be found on the
- web at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html .
-
- The text of the Rationale (not the full Standard) can be
- obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (see question 18.16)
- in directory doc/standards/ansi/X3.159-1989, and is also
- available on the web at
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/title.html . The Rationale has
- also been printed by Silicon Press, ISBN 0-929306-07-4.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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