home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.ebay.sun.com!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!morocco.Eng.Sun.COM!landauer
- From: landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Status of C++ standard?
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 00:41:13 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
- Lines: 42
- Message-ID: <lavqp9INN6de@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <6642@fury.BOEING.COM>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: morocco
-
- > 1. What is the official name of the C++ standard that is being developed
- > (e.g. ANSI X1234.567 or something like that).
-
- First, let's look at the story for the C (not C++) language, for some
- real examples of the names of these kinds of things. The official name
- of the international standard for C is something like "ISO 9899". The
- name of the committee that developed that standard is (I believe)
- ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22/WG14. The official name of the ANSI standard for C
- is "ANSI X3.1989". The name of the committee that developed that
- standard is ANSI X3J11. Important points to note are (1) neither
- standard was named until after it existed; and (2) the name of the
- standard is not particularly related to the name of the committee
- that produced that standard.
-
- Now, back to C++. The C++ standard, since it does not yet exist, has
- no name. The *committee* that is working on a future standard has an
- official name which is an expansion of the following:
- ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22/WG21
- This is an international committee. (I'm not up on exactly what all of
- the letters stand for. "J" stands for "Joint". :-)
-
- One of the national member bodies of this committee represents the US.
- That member body is largely, but not exactly the same as the ANSI
- committee that you may have been thinking of; its name is ANSI X3J16.
-
- The good news (relative to C) is that the ANSI X3J16 and ISO...WG21
- groups have set up their rules for maximum cooperation in producing a
- single standard document. The bad news (for you, apparently) is that
- it has no name yet, and won't until it is finished.
-
- > 2. The status of the standard, and any informed estimates of when
- > it might be formally adopted.
-
- My guess is 1995; some people think 1994, and a few think maybe 1993.
-
- In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of
- time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods,
- which are often hasty and injudicious.
- -- J. Priestley, 1761, not talking about X3J16/WG21
- --
- Doug Landauer -- landauer@eng.sun.com
- SUNW[STE]->SunPro::Languages.IPE(C++);
-