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Re: standard mania, was origins of C

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In article <584763190.629680980.014917.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>,
Peter Flass  <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The PL/I standard is extremely complete and detailed.

It was 400 pages, largely in impenetrable Vienna Definition Language.
The language in the standard was considerably smaller than the IBM
dialect that most people used (still use, I suppose.)

Fortran 77 was about the same size, although it was really only half
that length because each pair of pages had the spec for the full
language on one side and the subset on the other.

The C and Fortran standards have each grown quite a lot, in libraries
and interfaces more than the base languages.

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