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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by dblohm7 on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:54PM (#26390664)
> hobbyist programmers give way to highly paid employees of these giants

They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it. (Yes, I'm aware of the final drafts etc)

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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by dragonwriter on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:07PM (#26390797)
> They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it.

There's a difference between “learning to use” and “implementing” (though having access to the standard is good for both, it's more critical for the latter.)

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