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

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89?
Date 2015-02-06 18:44 +0000
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On 06/02/15 18:34, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 02/06/2015 01:16 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 06/02/15 18:06, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Hmmm. Are there any programming languages with British spelling
>>> for the language keywords?
>>
>> Yes. C, for example (if you exclude those keywords such as 'goto' that
>> are not actually words as such). Reference: K&R2, p192.
>
> I only have the first edition, so I can't follow that reference.

auto, break, case, char, const, continue, default, do, double, else, 
enum, extern, float, for, goto, if, int, long, register, return, short, 
signed, sizeof, static, struct, switch, typedef, union, unsigned, void, 
volatile, while.

All either made-up words or correctly sp... - forgive me, spelled in the 
English way.

>
> In any event, it occurred to me that the wording of his question isn't
> quite right. Do you know of any programming languages with British
> spelling for a language keyword, where that spelling is different from
> the US spelling?

The language that sprang to mind was BBC BASIC, but I was delighted to 
discover that, in truly ecumenical style, that language (or rather, that 
dialect) had not only COLOUR but also COLOR. :-)

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Richard Heathfield
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  Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2015-02-05 04:40 -0600
    Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-05 11:08 +0000
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