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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/11
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gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde) writes:
> Do you have an URL to where you could order those PDF copies. Is it
> only the C++ standard or is other standards also distributed this
> way.

<http://webstore.ansi.org/>

They have tons of stuff, all much more expensive than C++.
C is $135, Ada is $210.

Just like the Ada standardizers fought the good fight to make the Ada
standard free, the C++ standardizers did pretty much the same thing to
make C++ cheap. Without that kind of effort, the standards are
prohibitively, or at least discouragingly, expensive for individuals,
which is a shame.