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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: H&S4 errata?
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 12:05:06 -0600
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- Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >
- > In article <315D995D.2745@oc.com> lfw@oc.com "Larry Weiss" writes:
- >
- > >Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- > > > It is a great shame that Schildt didn't do
- > > > a much better job in annotating the standard. In particular some decent
- > > > cross-referencing could really help.
- > > >
- > >
- > >It's also a shame that one of us doesn't do a version of Schildt's book
- > >that actually lives up to the title. Steve Summit would be my candidate
- > >for the author, as a followup to his CFAQs publication.
- >
- > An interesting idea (or even more than one person!). One of the larger
- > problems may be to get ANSI or ISO to agree to publishing the standard
- > text in a 2nd book.
-
- That's one of my larger fears; that somehow, Schildt has a monopoly on the
- publication of the text of the C standard. If that were found to be true
- I'd say it would be time to retire ANSI from the process of C language
- standardization.
-
- Apparently ANSI is malleable enough to have allowed the fruits of the Ada
- language standardization process under their label to be freely distributable.
- In the best case, maybe someone with influence could cut the same deal for C.
-