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Re: Coding Standards are ignorant

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From: Larry Weiss
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 15:35
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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.
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