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- From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- In-Reply-To: Larry Weiss's message of Tue, 05 Mar 1996 09:35:39 -0600
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- Date: 06 Mar 1996 18:50:16 GMT
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- In article <313C5F4B.28F@oc.com> Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> writes:
-
- |> 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:
-
- |> "International Standard ISO/IEC 9899" (my copy is printed in Switzerland)
-
- |> ANSI adopted ISO/IEC 9899 as their C Standard. There is no difference between
- |> ISO C and ANSI C.
-
- It's even more confusing. As I understand it: in the beginning, there
- was an ANSI standard. This standard was adapted, or rather the
- technical content of this standard was adapted as an ISO standard.
- (The only changes ISO made were in the section numbers.) Then ANSI
- threw out its standard, and replaced it with the exactly identical
- (except for the section numbers) ISO standard.
-
- Again, however, this wasn't my point. My point was that an ANSI
- standard is *NOT* a standard where I live, and it is not a standard
- where I work. An ISO standard is. Irrespective of the contents.
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