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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89?

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89?
Date	2015-02-06 16:55 +0100
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On 06/02/15 14:56, Bartc wrote:
> On 06/02/2015 13:31, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 02/05/2015 06:15 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> Lew Pitcher wrote:
> 
>>>> In Canada as well.
>>>
>>> It's a shame people keep using the terms US English and British English.
>>>
>>> It's better to say US English and everyone else's English :)
>>
>> Why? While a solid majority of native speakers of English are from the
>> US(58.5%), and those from the UK form the second largest group (15.8%),
>> those two (groups of) dialects are far from being the only ones in
>> widespread use. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world>
> 
> From that article:  "(England being the language's historical homeland)."
> 
> So while the US might have invented C (the language not the capital
> letter), England invented English. Therefore they have first say in how
> to spell their own words!
> 

They /had/ the first say, and exported that spelling to the US.  Then
they changed it - for most differences in spelling, the US version is
arguably closer to the "original" (or earliest standardised spellings).

But there is little excuse for other differences, such as the American
misunderstanding of the words "ass", "pants" or "bum".

<http://refspace.com/quotes/John_Cleese/Q2412>

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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-06 17:20 +0000
Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-02-07 12:05 +0000
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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-02-05 11:59 -0500
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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-02-05 19:38 +0000
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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-02-06 10:54 +1300
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