Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.164645.372@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6658@ficc.uu.net> <14114@lanl.gov>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 16:46:45 GMT

In article <14114@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>> [...]                                      That's why Ansi C is a reality,
>
>The C standard has been through 3 public reviews and is presently facing
>a class-action suit.  It is still not an official standard.  This does
>not qualify as "a reality" in my book.

Let him who does not worship Fortran cast the first stone. :-)  Compared
to Fortran [789]N (or maybe it's Fivtran 9N now), ANSI C has moved along
pretty briskly and with little controversy.  And it *is* a standard
for all practical purposes, even if silly bureaucratic obstacles are
delaying the official laying-on-of-hands by ANSI.  There is no doubt
about the content any more.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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