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- so far, this brand-new-to-v4.1 directory includes files
- relevant to the book, "The Annotated ANSI C Standard",
- and the text originally published as the ANSI C rationale.
-
-
- The reason to own "The Annotated ANSI C Standard" is because it has the
- text of the ISO C standard. But the book has mistakes, and the file,
- AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard, points out the errors. Sometimes it
- suggests the correction and sometimes not.
-
- rationale.{ps,latex.tar.Z} is the text that was originally published as
- the ANSI C rationale. It contains useful information about the origin,
- creation and meaning of the ISO C standard, but was never published as
- part of the ISO version.
-
-
- Newsgroups: sgi.engr.all
- Subject: The Annotated ANSI C Standard : book review
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:46:36 GMT
-
- The Annotated ANSI C Standard
- American National Standard for Programming Languages-C
- ANSI/ISO 9899-1990
- by Herbert Schildt
- Published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.
-
- is, at $40, the cheapest way to get a copy of the real standard.
-
- It was reviewed by PJ Plauger in the January 1994 C User's journal,
- where Plauger points out that page 132 was dropped and page 131
- duplicated in its place. But he still recommends it.
-
- Recently Clive Feather posted his detailed technical review of the
- book on comp.std.c including every article posted related to the
- review (AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard.discussion.txt). Then, after this
- net discussion, he revised it slightly (AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard.txt).
- Here is that review in case you missed it in comp.std.c.
-
- It *is* the least expensive way to get the Standard.
-
- If you buy the book, make a copy from a real standard of what should
- be on page 132. Print out Clive Feather's review. File both with
- the book.
-
-
-
- Newsgroups: sgi.engr.all
- Subject: Re: The Annotated ANSI C Standard : book review
- Date: 29 Mar 1994 19:49:13 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 41
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- In article <CnE49o.LL8@sgi.sgi.com>,
- >
- > The Annotated ANSI C Standard
- > American National Standard for Programming Languages-C
- > ANSI/ISO 9899-1990
- > by Herbert Schildt
- > Published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.
- >
- >is, at $40, the cheapest way to get a copy of the real standard.
-
- ...
-
- >If you buy the book, make a copy from a real standard of what
- >should be on page 132. Print out Clive Feather's review.
- >File both with the book.
-
- You will also want a copy of the rationale: "Rationale for
- American National Standard for Information Systems -- Programming
- Language -- C" which is printed with the expensive version, but
- omitted from the above-mention annotated version.
-
- To quote from the introduction, "This Rationale summarizes the
- deliberations of X3J11, the Technical committee charged by ANSI
- with devising a standard for the C programming language."
-
- While not part of the standard proper, it contains invaluable
- insight into why the committee created the standard the way they
- did. It also contains invaluable information on how ANSI/ISO C
- differs from e.g. K&R. It's large: 119+ pages.
-
- Available in postscript and latex source, and on various ftp sites.
-
-