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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: 7 Mar 96 17:06:45 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <KANZE.96Mar5131710@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) writes:
-
- >In article <4hfecl$33t@solutions.solon.com> seebs@solutions.solon.com
- >(Peter Seebach) writes:
- >
- >|> In article <4hf9m1$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 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.)
-
- I think that the point is missed by both Thomas and James. Everybody
- agrees that the C standard is the ISO one. However, the name that caught
- on is _ANSI_ C whether we Europeans like it or not. I have yet to see
- a C book with the string "ISO C" on its cover. Except for relatively
- few people, "ISO C" is rather meaningless to the C users community, while
- "ANSI C" denotes the language described in K&R2. Compiler documentation
- keeps talking about ANSI conformance and -ansi options are quite popular.
-
- The real world tends to be a little bit different from comp.std.c :-)
-
- Dan
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