From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: dewar@gnat.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:01:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010918225129.K12089@codesourcery.com>
References: <20010918193014.424BCF2B67@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00747.html

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:30:14PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<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.

... and it helps that the Ada standard is a fair bit less confusing
(on a casual read of the first few chapters) than the C standard is.

I would certainly like to see the C standard become more widely
disseminated and referred to.

zw