STANDARDIZATION


  • Ada 83 is an ISO standard

  • Ada 95 is an ISO standard

  • C is an ANSI standard

  • C++ is not yet a standard
    - “It will probably be years before the C++ standard is finally adopted.” H. Schildt, ANSI C++ committee,1995
    - Results of recent ISO canvas for C++ standard:
    • 10 in favor
    • 6 against
    • USA abstained
    • Britain lodged approximately 85 pages of comments


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From the Script: SLIDE 17 - Standardization

Ada 83 and Ada 95 are both ISO standards.

C is, as we all know, an ANSI standard.

C++ on the other hand is not yet a standard - and may not be for some time to come. The results of a recent ISO survey indicated that C++ still had a way to go. Current C++ ISO committee estimates are September of 1998.

Standardization has a direct link to portability. It alone doesn't solve that problem, but without a standardized language, the project is locked into one vendors' dialect.