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Subject: Re: C (Was: [9fans] same functions everywhere)
Date: Thu,  8 May 2003 09:08:52 +0000
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Sam wrote:
> While I've not read it, I'm told the commentary
> on the c99 standard is about 1k pages long.  I
> belive this qualifies as sufficiently bloated.

Do you mean the Rationale document?  (A work still
in progress.)  It has to discuss what could have been
done but wasn't, and why not.  That's inherently a
lot of stuff, and isn't necessary to understand C.
A better example would be K&R 2nd Ed. which is a
tutorial and abbreviated reference guide; much less
than 1000 pages.