I remember being frustrated, as a student in the early 2000s, that the C99 standard was not freely available. I really wanted it, so after many hours and days o

I remember being frustrated, as a student in the early 2000s, that the C99 standard was not freely available. I really wanted it, so after many hours and days of searching, I eventually discovered that there were drafts, and that they were freely available. That was good enough for me :) Same thing for C11, the final draft, N1570 is freely available: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf