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Here's one metric: The Pascal 1990 ISO Standard was under 100 pages long. The C90 standard was about 230 pages, and the C11 standard about 700 pages long.
by 1wd 10y ago
Here's one metric: The Pascal 1990 ISO Standard was under 100 pages long. The C90 standard was about 230 pages, and the C11 standard about 700 pages long.
- naasking 10y agoDid the pascal standard include the standard library? Because C does. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison unless both standards specified standard libraries with comparable features.
- TremendousJudge 10y agoI'm pretty sure it included its equivalent functions and definitions http://www.pascal-central.com/docs/iso7185.pdf http://www.pascal-central.com/docs/iso7185.pdf
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI would expect the standards to grow as they take care to nail down more and more corner cases. I don't want to dismiss that: the "stupidity" I mentioned above is largely about making wrong decisions about those corner cases. Indeed, I suspect if the right decisions had been made, the standard could have been shorter. Though perhaps only by a factor two.