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Newer page: | version 22 | Last edited on Monday, June 1, 2009 7:19:54 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | Revert |
Older page: | version 21 | Last edited on Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:43:39 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Various snippets of information about [C] in the wiki:
* CastingPointerToFunction
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+__Standardization__
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+The first official standard for the language was “ANSI X3.159-1989” or [ANSI C|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C], also known as “C89” because it was completed in 1989.
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+This standard was picked up by [ISO] the following year as ISO/IEC 9899:1990, also known as “C90”.
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+In 1999, a revised standard, ISO/IEC 9899:1999, a.k.a. [C99|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99], was ratified. A decade later, I don’t think any widely-available compiler yet fully supports all its features, though [GCC] comes close.
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