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From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX
Date: 1996/04/19
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Date: 1996-04-19T04:14:42-05:00
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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.