From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dewar@gnat.com
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, pfk@fuchs.offl.uni-jena.de, zack@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: Proposal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010918193014.424BCF2B67@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00724.html

<<Most programmers don't know the standard and are not interested in knowing
the standard, because their (present) job is to solve a problem for one or
two different systems, not for every theoretically possible system,
and the standard supports nearly every stuff which has more than 4 pins ;-)
>>

This very much varies by language. Nearly all Ada programmers *do* know
the Ada standard, and use it as at least one of their reference sources.
And it is probably not coincidental that the Ada ISO/ANSI standard *is*
freely available.