I think Roger has always taken the stance that the dictionary offers a complete specification of the language, hence it is, in this sense, open.
On 7/7/07, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/7/07, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > > Last I heard, C was a popular language for open-source development. > > I'm aware of some proprietary standards for the language (for example, > > C99), but not any "open standards". Can you point me at any? > > Isn't C99, like FORTRAN-77, an ISO standard? Yes, it's an ISO standard. However, as such, it's less "open" as a standard than J. Perhaps "proprietary" is too strong a word for standards which are published openly but which are closed to derivatives. But I do not see that the C language, as a standard, is more open than the J language. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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