1990 C90
2000 C99
2011 C11
so, if this is the trend expect a new C standard in 2022.
2000 C99
2011 C11
so, if this is the trend expect a new C standard in 2022.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29
Microsoft as typical bad boy attitude already said it only cares about C89, as everything else can be done with C++ anyway.
And as they don't care about portability this is unlikely to change, unless they are pressured to change like it happened with IE.
Do you know if SQL 92 is finally fully supported across DB servers?
This was a nightmare back in the early 90's.
This is specifically about the C programming language. Can we not conflate it with a different language entirely, at least in this comment thread?
They do try and stay reasonably consistent so for example Long Long moved from C to C++. And C99 has reduced some other incompatibilities by incorporating C++ features such as // comments and mixed declarations and code.
Many C++ compilers actually are C/C++ compilers that decide what language to compile depending on command line flags and/or file name extension.
int* foo = malloc(sizeof(int));
int* foo = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
In some ways, I'd like the C standard to move a bit faster, to keep up with things like multi-threading (although there's an argument to be had over whether that should be defined as part of the language or left to vendor-specific libraries).
Another problem is that the standard becomes irrelevant. This is a concern for HTML5, because a 'rapidly evolving' standard means that things can be added prematurely - but once something is in the standard, it can't be removed (easily). At some point, you run the risk of having more companies go the Microsoft route and just abandon the standard altogether, and either stick with an older version, or just fork it into their own new language.