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Paul Duffin pduffin at hursley.ibm.com
Fri Aug 25 11:59:54 EDT 2000 
Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> In article <39A69194.A9B1131A at hursley.ibm.com>,
> Paul Duffin  <pduffin at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
> >Tim Peters wrote:
> >>
> >> "ANSI C" is universally taken to mean the version of the language as defined
> >> by the American National Standards Institute, working committee X3J11, in
> >> 1989, and as amended by a Technical Corrigendum sometime in the mid-90's.
> >> Before late 1999, there was no ambiguity here as that was the *only* C
> >> standard.
> >
> >While that may be true for people who are used to working with
> >standards in there raw form I dount that the majority of people
> >developing open source software would immediately think of the above
> >when you said "ANSI C".
> >
> >They are more likely to think of the 2nd Edition of K&R.
> 
> Yes, and that's what K&R2 is based on.  Direct lineage.

So is K&R 2nd Edition the definitive definition of C that Python
will use ?
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