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A comment on The State of C (1988).

Re:The State of C (1988) by expr- on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:03PM (#8402431)
I doubt very much that the bulk of the text was written in (or near) 2005. Thus it tells very little of the state of C in 2005, but might otherwise prove to be mildly interesting read on the 80s.
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Re:The State of C (1988) by dang on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:21PM (#8402878)
Good catch. At the end:

Editor's note: Adapted with permission from Potentials. December 1983, pages 26-30. Copyright 1983 IEEE.

Edit: something's not right there. That's way too early. According to https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/bwkbib.html, it's 1988 and from BYTE.

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Re:The State of C (1988) by TorKlingberg on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:13PM (#8402837)
Indeed, I found the quote "ANSI C is expected to be approved late in 1988."
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