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A comment on Brian Kernighan's new book: D is for Digital. Parent comment

Re:Brian Kernighan's new book: D is for Digital by pjmlp on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @01:29PM (#3699403)
I had hoped for it as well, but it might never happen.

Now we have already C11, and AFAIK there isn't a single compiler that fully supports C99, let alone C11.

Then we have companies like Microsoft which nowadays care only about C++, and won't improve the C standard support beyond C89 on their compiler.

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Re:Brian Kernighan's new book: D is for Digital by octopus on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @04:59PM (#3700410)
I think gcc and (maybe) clang have good support for C99:

http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html

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Re:Brian Kernighan's new book: D is for Digital by pjmlp on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:33PM (#3704637)
Good support is not 100%.

Plus not all projects are allowed to use gcc or clang.

Case in point, I worked in a project where the UNIX compilers used had to be the standard vendor ones for Aix, HP-UX and Solaris.

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