From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: Bradd W. Szonye Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX Date: 1996/04/19 Message-ID: <01bb2dd0.ef5cbb60$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150402033 references: <4knr5l$gb1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4x4tqo2b1d.fsf_-_@bernoulli.enst-bretagne.fr> <4kuc6p$3bt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Fri Apr 19 4:14:42 AM CDT 1996 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-19T04:14:42-05:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, April 16, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote... > "You still have to buy them from the IEEE. They are reluctant to > give them away because document sales pay for a significant > portion of IEEE's support for standards." > > To me, this is a terrible way to deal with standards. It is very important > to make standards freely available if they are to have maximum impact. > This can certainly be achieved, as has been demonstrated by the Ada 95 > ANSI/ISO standard, which is available freely from the net, and can be > copied by anyone without charge. > > Again, standards are for compiler/OS vendors, not programmers. Vendors have lots of money. Programmers don't. Go to Border's and buy a book by a smart programmer who's deciphered the standards and translated them into English.