Proposal

[dewar@gnat.com]

<<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.