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It's kind of the default for ISO standards, not just for programming languages. Ada is - to my knowledge - the exception, the standard document and the rational
by krylon 3y ago
It's kind of the default for ISO standards, not just for programming languages. Ada is - to my knowledge - the exception, the standard document and the rationale are available free of charge.
However, the draft documents are usually available for free, and the difference between the final draft and the official standard is usually miniscule (typos, punctuation errors, and so forth). You can probably find it on the working group's web site.
- trws 3y agoYup, this. The final version the committee actually works on is free for C, C++ and Fortran. After that ISO has it. I’m honestly not sure I would trust the final as much as the final draft. You can also build the c++ spec from the latex for yourself, the repo is public.
- jt2190 3y agohttps://wg5-fortran.org/f2023.html https://wg5-fortran.org/f2023.html
- krylon 3y agoThank you very much!
- peppermint_gum 3y ago> However, the draft documents are usually available for free Unfortunately, not for SQL :(
- creer 3y agoIt's the default but are these orgs really getting significant funding from that kind of end-user hostile behavior? (And some drafts are available and sufficient but not in all fields)
- krylon 3y agoI don't know a lot about standards organisations. But the people who actually create the standards are not getting paid by ISO. So I don't know what expenses ISO has to cover other than the cost of publishing the standard itself, which in digital form should be very low. In a corporate setting it might not be as big an issue, but as a private citizen who wants to read a standard document for educational purposes, paying upward of 100 bucks is fairly expensive, so this makes me a bit grumpy. I completely agree with your sentiment.