Re: So what Standard are we working off?

Keith Thompson posted:


When the 1999 updated standard was issued, there was already an
existing standard that had been nearly universally adopted. It wasn't
perfect, but it did make it possible to write actual portable code.
There wasn't nearly as much demand for C99 as the was for C89; it made
the difference between having one standard and having another
different standard.


Do you think the C99 Standard will ever replace the C90 Standard, or do you
think the C community is content with C90 and does not want to change
anything?

Is there anything particularly unpleasant about C99? When I first started
to realise that everyone was using C90, my first presumption about the
situation was that there was some horrible feature about C99 which nobody
liked (VLA's maybe?)?

Are there ever times when you're programming in C that you would like to
use a C99 feature that isn't present in C90?


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Frederick Gotham
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