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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
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- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 09:35:39 -0600
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- James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 wrote:
- >
- > I don't think that that was Thomas' point. If you look at our email
- > domains, you will realize that with regards to standardization, ANSI
- > has about the same weight as K&R for us:-). An ANSI standard is a
- > standard in the United States, but not, or at least not de jura,
- > elsewhere. (In practice, of course, in the absense of a competing ISO
- > standard, ANSI standards tend to become de facto standards even here.)
- > --
-
-
- Confusion reigns! To be specific, the International C Standard is formally
- named:
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- "International Standard ISO/IEC 9899" (my copy is printed in Switzerland)
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- ANSI adopted ISO/IEC 9899 as their C Standard. There is no difference between
- ISO C and ANSI C.
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