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- From: msb@sq.com
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- Subject: Re: C Standard distribution
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 07:08:35 -0600
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- > If only ISO (or ANSI) would make the C Standard available in hardcopy
- > and paperback in my local technical bookstore.
- >
- > [To save people time, yes, there is a paperback version with some errors
- > in it published with incorrect or useless annotations, and I doubt anyone
- > needs corrections or clarifications on this, right? -mod]
-
- I'd say that two clarifications are needed. First, since the original
- poster apparently wasn't aware of the book, that it is the "Annotated
- ANSI C Standard", with annotations by Herbert Schildt, published by
- Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-881952-0.
-
- And second, that in addition to having incorrect or useless annotations
- (see Clive Feather's review under <http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/>), that
- the book does not include the standard's introduction. This is correct
- in a sense, since the introduction is not part of the standard -- *but*
- the introduction is also the place where it's stated that the examples
- and footnotes, which look like part of the standard and which are included
- in the book, are in fact *also* not part of it.
- --
- Mark Brader, msb@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
- The precedence don't enter into it -- it's stone undefined.
- This expression makes no sense. It has ceased to be. It's
- expired and gone, though sadly not forgotten. This is a latent
- expression. Bereft of meaning, it should rest in peace. If
- people didn't keep nailing it into these discussions, it would be
- pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined
- the choir ineffable. This is not an ex-pression.
- -- Steve Summit (after Monty Python)
-
- My text in this article is in the public domain.
-