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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
[...]
> Well, I wouldn't actually go so far as to say "Turbo C" (after all, it 
> had a few bugs). But do I think that there should be few, if any, 
> changes to the language? Yes, I do. I have no problem with innovation 
> and development, but let's just call it something else, not C. The ISO C 
> Committee get around this by calling the new version C99, or C11, or 
> whatever, but the trouble with that is that there is some perception 
> that the older incarnations of C are thus obsolesced, and I think that's 
> a bad thing.

The ISO C committee probably uses the term C99 and C11 informally, but
the word "C11" does not appear anywhere in ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (E).
And the idea that older editions are obsolete is not just perception,
it's an explicit statement.  Paragraph 6 of the C11 Foreword says:

    This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition, ISO/IEC
    9899:1999, which has been technically revised.

(In spite of that, I feel no particular obligation to pretend that the
C90 and C99 standards no longer exist, even if I prefer to use the later
edition when I can.)

> If you want to innovate, yes, innovate! But while you're in a creative 
> mood, for pity's sake think up a new name.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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