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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Goals of X3J11 (was Re: directory handling in ansi C)
Keywords: ansi c, directories
Message-ID: <11682@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Nov 89 16:24:05 GMT
References: <13288@s.ms.uky.edu> <11659@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Nov21.235640.3662@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1751@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <481@mwtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <481@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>Following the discussion up to this point, I don't want to continue,
>but I whished the committee had left out the C-stdlib completly on the
>first run and later defined this item in several subsets, to which the
>C-implementations could seperatly conform (or not).

X3J11 was generally of the sentiment that there was a de facto fuzzy
standard for string operations, I/O, etc. and that any really useful
C standard would have to include these facilities (at least for the
"hosted" environment; "freestanding" excludes almost all of them).
I agree with the decision; from my point of view standardizing the
library facilities was MORE important than standardizing the raw
language.