POLARIS@usc-isi.ARPA (06/18/84)
The X3J11 committee of the CBEMA has issued a draft standard for the C language (27 Feb 1984). This proposal addresses much of what has been discussed on the NET for some time, and additionally addresses which of these issues are expected to remain compiler dependant. The proposed draft standard also includes library and environment standards--the library standard being, I understand, that of /usr/group. I beleive that Larry Rosler is the chairman of the effort and that copies of the proposed standards may be soon available from CEBMA. A friend of mine, Reggie Creighton is on the committee, and I have read much of the proposal. There are very few things which are too surprising, and the attempt seems to continue not to compromise the language "esthetic" too severly by including too much, or causing old code to break. Mike Seyfrit <polaris @usc-isi>