14 Sep
2009
14 Sep
'09
8:42 p.m.
Stanislaw Halik scripsit:
ANSI CL included lots of useless cruft because little children that formed the commission threatened to pull out if crufts from their implementation weren't supported.
More seriously, the whole point of standardization was code mobility, and without all that stuff, major applications would have to have been rewritten. Code was much more important (as in C standardization) than implementations were.
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