[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/7/2018 12:18 PM, Chris wrote:
> On 08/07/18 02:05, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Not really.
>>
>> K&R was the standard 1978 to 1989.
>>
>> But since ANSI X3.159-1989 was published in 1989 then the ANSI/ISO
>> standards has been the C standard.
> 
> Did you actually read what I said ?
> 
> "are the primary definitions of it historically,
>  >> though i'm sure there will have been many changes since.
> 
> ...including becoming a standard or two. Good enough ?...

Not really.

#                                                           the
# 1988 edition of K&R
# ...
#                                                          If there
# is a standard, then that book and the one from Harbison & Steele, "C,
# a Reference Manual", are the primary definitions of it historically,
# though i'm sure there will have been many changes since.

There is a standard. And it is not those books.

And the use of the term historically like this does
not convey the correct message that it is 29 years
since it has been so.

Arne