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Article #2476I have seen the ISO C standard, and it is weird.
From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 1991 20:34
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 1991 20:34
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I posted this three days ago in com.std.internat, by mistake, under a silly title, so here it is again. domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: >the current edition (I'm told it's out) of ISO 9899 It's out; reference number "ISO/IEC 9899 : 1990 (E)", dated 1990-12-15. Typographically and contents-wise almost identical to the ANSI one --- but they ADDED 3 TO ALL THE CHAPTER NUMBERS (he screamed). It seems that ISO/IEC standards needs to have separate ``clauses'' on Scope, Normative references, Definitions and conventions, and Compliance; so the first four clause numbers cover four pages between them, and the next three (Environment, Language, and Library) are 172 pages. It seems a little silly. But I suppose the ISO/IEC style would rather have made the next level of the standard into chapters, giving a total of 28; less incongruous, maybe, but even more confusing when compared to the ANSI edition. -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rice!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!diku!thorinn From: thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: I have seen the ISO C standard, and it is weird. Message-ID: <1991Feb23.203413.21723@odin.diku.dk> Date: 23 Feb 91 20:34:13 GMT References: <ENAG.91Feb13234959@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no> <1991Feb16.140510.22226@tsa.co.uk> Sender: news@odin.diku.dk (Netnews System) Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 22