Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:19:34 -0700 From: Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++? Message-ID: <444A9DE6.4070203@hotlz.com> In-Reply-To: <864q0lplro.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <44490663.3040506@hotlz.com> <86d5f9pno8.fsf@xps.des.no> <444A652E.5010403@kanga.org> <864q0lplro.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org> writes: > > >>Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes: >> >> >>>Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> writes: >>> >>> >>>>C++ and C are languages that are defined by ANSI >>>> >>>> >>>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... >> >> > >Whatever you may think, C and C++ are not defined by ANSI. They're >defined by ISO's JTC1/SC22, working groups 14 and 21, respectively. >While it is very nice of ANSI to adopt the result of that work as >national standards for the US, it is largely irrelevant for the >remaining 6 billion people on the planet. > >And please get a proper MUA, so I don't have to fix your quoting when >replying. > >DES > > Not that any of this really matter's, but this was not the way I remembered it happening so I did a little looking. Bjarne Stroustrup says in his book "The C++ Programming Language" Third Edition (I think he had something do with c++) on page 11 that the ISO standard was taken from the ANSI standard and "From 1990, these joint C++ standards committees have been the main forum for the evolution of C++ and the refinement of its of its definition." I also noticed that the g++ compiler has a "-ansi" option. BTW where's Bjarne from? In the book he mentions Murray Hill, New Jersey but with that name I think he from somewhere else. And let me say this is not important other I used the term ANSI and maybe I should have just said standards committee which was my point. Don 8)
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