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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:17:34 -0700
From:      David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?
Message-ID:  <444A652E.5010403@kanga.org>
In-Reply-To: <86d5f9pno8.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <44490663.3040506@hotlz.com> <86d5f9pno8.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Don Dugger wrote:
 > C++ and C are languages that are defined by ANSI

Dag-Erling Smørgrav replied:
> No they're not.  It may surprise you to learn that there is a whole
> world outside the USA which does not care one whit about ANSI.

This would be news to those involved in the standardization process, who 
went through great pains to ensure that ISO C90 was the same as ANSI 
C89, ANSI C++98 was the same as ISO C++98, and ANSI C2000 was the same 
as ISO C99...




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