prginthebox

The almost equivalent is always the scary part. Is there a guarantee that there is no technical difference between the draft and final standard? From your reply, it seems, it is intentionally not specified what exactly are the differences to force compiler vendor to buy the standards. But then the one using a draft is always scared there is one thing different which he has not looked into and this is causing problems somehow.

twas a joke.

What a load of bullshit. Most of the scientists have spent a long time actually working, especially in the modern era. None of the successful physicist/mathematicians of those whom I have seen slackers. Each one of them (without exception) have worked extremely hard. Also, more importantly, I have seen level insight into solving difficult problems being directly and causally proportional to the amount of work people have put in trying stuff that hasn't worked till now.