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From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/19
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On Monday, April 08, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote...
> [...] In practice compiler vendors
> often go to quite a bit of trouble to make sure that things that people
> expect to work, do in fact work they way they expect, even if the
standard
> says that the behavior is undefined.

In the desktop computing world, where the IBM's and Microsofts send the
standards instead of the ANSI's and ISO's, this concept is known as a "de
facto standard." Translation from the Latin: it works 'cuz everybody does
it that way, not 'cuz ISO-9899/1990 sez so.