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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by MaulingMonkey on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:26PM (#26394186)
It also includes people wanting to write standards-compliant code, and even "people who want to contribute to compilers." The closed nature of the standard means secondary sources dominate my search index. A previous rant about how the entire internet fails to warn you that atoi("a"); is undefined behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861917

I've contributed a few patches to rustc, shipped multiple C++ projects, and even technically submitted a patch to LLVM. I've got a copy of the C++03 standard... but even I haven't rushed out to empty my pocketbook for C++11, C++14, C++17, and C++20, despite using them.

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