Is C99 C?

Because of my disgust with Richard Heathfield's behavior, I am getting
back up to speed on C having abandoned it years ago because it is
obsolete and unsafe in all versions. I am doing so for forensic
reasons because I believe Richard to be guilty of civil and criminal
libel. I have this question for the group.

If (as some clown editing wikipedia claims) C99 is a "dialect" of C,
what is Heathfield doing here? He's an authority on C99 and if it is a
dialect then he should create a separate newsgroup for C99. When most
programmers think "C" they think K & R 1 (the book Garth is seen
carrying at the end of Wayne's World II) or 2.

The word dialect in computing science means that neither language is a
subset of the other: instead, they overlap.

Furthermore, it appears to me that C99, like Cobol, was a language
designed by a committee. The treatment of Schildt by some of the
members implies that some individuals on this committee were
vindictive and twisted people.

I smell a rat.
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Storgae durations
    ... Mac OS X, Solaris, and HP-UX is "very portable", and Richard offering ... about C99, but the immediate point was about portability. ... but the surrounding context seems be all the nearby ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: global variables initialization
    ... What if he isn't using C99? ... And I'm pretty sure Richard knows this. ... Richard much prefers precision to clarity. ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Casting the return value of malloc() ?
    ... That's not permitted for a conforming implementation ot C99 ... but of little relevance for the time being. ... Now now Richard, some of us do use platforms where the native compiler ... Why is it not good QoI? ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Storgae durations
    ... he DID NOT SAY that C99 is not available for OS390. ... platforms that would cause the spluttering, ... let's look at the article yet again; this is Richard Heathfield ... but the immediate point was about portability. ...
    (comp.lang.c)