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Re: Proposal
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, pfk at fuchs dot offl dot uni-jena dot de,zack at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: Proposal
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
<<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.