------- Additional Comments From sven at clio dot in-berlin dot de 2005-05-15 18:20 ------- (In reply to comment #8) > Let me say this, the standard is needed otherwise, there is no language > defined as C, just like there phython is not really defined. Did You know that You can not write a C preprocessor in ANSI C (at least none, You want to work with)? ANSI C lacks the necessary standardization of the underlying file system, thus, You do not know how to combine a path with an include file enclosed in brackets (#include <stdiio>). Python is defined. There is only one Python interpreter and Python is, what the interpreter does. It has the advantage, that it is not standardized but developed by the comunity. Compared to C (which has beside ANSI the POSIX, XOPEN, BSD and what not as a library 'standard') I see this aproach as an advantage. I do not think that there is any C compiler which implements _only_ the ANSI/ISO standard. Of course, ANSI/ISO C is underdefined (as far as I know) because the standardization comitee does not publish a test suite for standard conformance (unlike Python, Perl, Java, PHP). > Oh, and people who write GCC are both on the C and C++ ISO committees. Sorry, if You feel personal insulted. It was not intended.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21543
