Re: ANSI C compliance

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 11/06/03 

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:21:21 -0700

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:47:24 GMT, Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:

>Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net> writes:
>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 08:57:29 GMT, "Roose" <nospam@nospam.nospam>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >and suggest that there should be a group called comp.lang.ansi-c or
>> >whatever,
>>
>> Nope. C *is* ANSI-C. The standard is the very definition of C To me,
>> comp.lang means just that - discussions about the *language.* Not its
>> applications, not extensions to it, not libraries for it or algorithms
>> coded in it, but the language itself and its proper use. No confusion
>> there.
>
>Just to be pedantic, it's more accurate to refer to ISO C rather than
>ANSI C. The 1989 ANSI standard was adopted, with some minor editorial
>changes, as the 1990 ISO standard. The 1999 standard is
>ISO/IEC 9899:1999. (I think it's also officially an ANSI standard;
>ANSI is a member if ISO.)
>
Quite true, but I'm afraid you have a losing battle, especially with
Americans ;-)

In this case, I didn't want to first explain that Roose had made an
error in naming his proposed group, then make my point.

I admit that I have a tendency to be wishy-washy and write "ANSI/ISO",
because hardly anyone I deal with on a daily basis (other than the
fine folks here) uses "ISO" to refer to the standard. 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

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