Unrelated, but this reminded me of this old chestnut that still makes me smile. It is from comp.lang.c FAQ, e.g. <https://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/fall96/netprog/

Unrelated, but this reminded me of this old chestnut that still makes me smile. It is from comp.lang.c FAQ, e.g. <https://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/fall96/netprog/cfaq.html https://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/fall96/netprog/cfaq.html>: The cost is $130.00 from ANSI or $162.50 from Global. Copies of the original X3.159 (including the Rationale) are still available at $205.00 from ANSI or $200.50 from Global. Note that ANSI derives revenues to support its operations from the sale of printed standards, so electronic copies are _not_ available. The mistitled _Annotated ANSI C Standard_, with annotations by Herbert Schildt, contains all but a few pages of ISO 9899; it is published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-881952-0, and sells in the U.S. for approximately $40. (It has been suggested that the price differential between this work and the official standard reflects the value of the annotations.)