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ISO Updates C Standard

Posted by timothy on from the now-known-as-d-no-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the new specifications for the C programming language. The standard is known unofficially as C1X and was published officially as ISO/IEC 9899:2011. It provides greater compatibility with the C++ language and adds new features to C (as indicated in the draft)."

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  1. Re:Let's get C99 right first by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who cares about Microsoft these days? Any damage they cause by lagging behind standards is only to themselves, unlike the bad old days. In the modern world GCC is the bar by which Microsoft is measured, and usually found lacking.

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  2. Re:Let's get C99 right first by Freestyling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi, I'm a Windows developer.

    I'll take C# over C any day, and I have 20 years of C experience.

    I believe that's kinda the parent poster's point. For a windows developer MS make their proprietary C# language easy, and C hard work. Now for most stuff that's fine, but sometimes a lower level language is needed. Ever tried writing a kernel mode driver in C#?

  3. Re:Let's get C99 right first by rev0lt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The solidity and reliability of COBOL code comes from decades of correcting bugs and lack of features of most applications that are still in use today. And yes, I've worked professionally as a COBOL programmer.

  4. Re:Let's get C99 right first by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not being a C or C++ developer, I'm not sure who to believe - in the Firefox compilation story a few days ago, there were a fair few highly modded up posts extoling the virtues of the quality and speed of binaries output by the MS C and C++ compiler over GCC.

    Any thoughts on that?