print statement and multithreading

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Fri Aug 25 11:38:22 EDT 2000


In article <39A69194.A9B1131A at hursley.ibm.com>,
Paul Duffin  <pduffin at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
>Tim Peters wrote:
>> 
>> "ANSI C" is universally taken to mean the version of the language as defined
>> by the American National Standards Institute, working committee X3J11, in
>> 1989, and as amended by a Technical Corrigendum sometime in the mid-90's.
>> Before late 1999, there was no ambiguity here as that was the *only* C
>> standard.
>
>While that may be true for people who are used to working with
>standards in there raw form I dount that the majority of people
>developing open source software would immediately think of the above
>when you said "ANSI C".
>
>They are more likely to think of the 2nd Edition of K&R.

Yes, and that's what K&R2 is based on.  Direct lineage.
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