Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Walter Banks Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:46:45 -0500 Organization: Byte Craft Limited Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4F33B225.D299EAB7@bytecraft.com> References: <4F302611.2000008@verizon.net> <4F32D7E4.48484BE6@bytecraft.com> Reply-To: walter@bytecraft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 2nVzA1pm3SeFwKszH3sQhA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD479 (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:16980 Keith Thompson wrote: > Walter Banks writes: > > For users who need that professionally the fees are very > > low cost compared to finding out that a single but important sentence > > was different between two copies. > > Surely a published checksum or PGP signature on the PDF file would serve > that purpose. There are lots of technological solutions that would work. ISO has standards for documents it provides. Making changes in standard document form and getting them approved by ISO member countries would make all the changes to C seem trivial. w..