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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 12:56:21 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4hfecl$33t@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1996Mar403.23.06.8316@koobera.math.uic.edu> <4he37i$a0u@solutions.solon.com> <4hf9m1$fp8@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- In article <4hf9m1$fp8@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
- Thomas Koenig <Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
- >In comp.std.c, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) wrote:
-
- >>It is, in no place, unreasonable to assume that C means "ANSI C".
-
- >I usually prefer "ISO C", but that's a very minor point, I think :-)
-
- Yes, especially since ANSI adopted ISO's standard. They are expected
- to be identical, except for the occasional lag between meetings of one
- and meetings of the other.
-
- I will amend my statement, though; in acronyms or discussions of
- alphabets, phonetics, or linguistics, it is probably foolish to
- assume that C means either ANSI or ISO C. I should restrict my
- statement to discussions of programming languages named C, of
- which there is only one at this time.
-
- (Although there are a fair number of spin-offs.)
-
- -s
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