Another thing is that the language backers made sure the ISO standard was available at no cost which was not obvious in the eighties so students could read it.

Another thing is that the language backers made sure the ISO standard was available at no cost which was not obvious in the eighties so students could read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8652 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8652 I was told that the Ada guyes fought with ISO to have a per paragraph numbering to ease translations and references, ISO (at the time, don't know now) was line numbered, but they lost.