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Article #1856Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
From: Thad Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:15
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:15
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In article <danpop.826218405@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: >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 feel a little silly stating the obvious, but it was the ANSI committee that actually developed the standard. ISO renumbered sections, dropped the Rationale, and put their number on the front. I'm sure that's slighting ISO somewhat, but the fact remains that the ANSI committee is the one that actually wrote the standard. Why shouldn't they get some informal credit? Thad
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!teal.csn.net!not-for-mail From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant Date: 8 Mar 1996 08:15:08 -0700 Organization: T3 Systems Message-ID: <gK8PxQ9yt1oB084yn@csn.net> References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1996Mar403.23.06.8316@koobera.math.uic.edu> <4he37i$a0u@solutions.solon.com> <4hf9m1$fp8@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <4hfecl$33t@solutions.solon.com> <KANZE.96Mar5131710@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <danpop.826218405@rscernix> Reply-To: ThadSmith@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.117.27.22