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Re: ISO C and C++ Standards Docs
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: jamesbuch at iprimus dot com dot au, neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:54:24 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: ISO C and C++ Standards Docs
> James Buchanan wrote:-
>
> > I said "free." I don't have that amount of money to spare.
>
> And the answer should be obvious from my reply.
It sure is a pity that these documents are not available for free downloading.
One of the really nice accomplishments in the Ada standardization process
was to keep the copyright open, so that the Ada standard can be downloaded.
Well, actually, to be strict, the official ISO version cannot be downloaded
but it differs only in the (extremely annoying) respect that ISO removed
the very useful paragraph numbers from the officially published version.
This was achieved by simply demanding it and making it clear that this
was non-negotiable. Basically, we said "OK, ISO, either you let us
freely publish, or we won't give you the copyright to publish the standard.
We would rather have a freely available ANSI standard without the ISO
brand name than an ISO-branded standard that costs money".