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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:33:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Benjamin Ketcham <bketcham@drizzle.com> wrote:
: 
: The fact that C99 has not caught on would seem to indicate that
: the market considers it *less* useful, not more!  The de facto
: industry standard is "C90 plus the common extensions", and there it
: remains.  I guess the C programmers didn't want their language to
: go down the path of the "RM".  Or, they just don't see it as
: necessary (niche areas like numerical computation being exceptions).

Maybe C99 is as yet unknown to many C programmers?


-- Georg