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How to decide when to increase the minimum supported C++ standard version?
I'm maintaining a library written in C++, which offers modern-C++ bindings for another API that's C-ish (it's this one, although I'm trying to make this question somewhat more general).
Now, when I ...
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What is actually the difference between the GNU C Library and the C standard Library?
I sometimes see these two terms be used interchangeably.
What is the actual difference between these two terms? How are they used differently? Are there any other alternatives to these two libraries?
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Is it necessary to follow the standard, take the C standard for that matter?
There are some very experienced folks on Stack Overflow who always talk about the C standard. People seem to not like non-portable solutions, even if they work for me. Ok, I understand that the ...
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Why do programming language (open) standards cost money? [closed]
Isn't it counter-productive to ask for 384 Swiss franks for C11 or 352 Swiss franks for C++11, if the aim is to make the standards widely adopted?
Please note, I'm not ranting at all, and I'm not ...
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Standards for reading code out loud?
Has anyone defined a standard for reading code out loud, for any language? I imagine this is important to software like screen readers for the vision-impaired. This sort of thing also comes up when ...
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Is it worth reading the language specification? [closed]
I'm wondering if it is worth reading language specifications/standard documents (e.g. The Java Language Specification) if you aren't going to write a compiler/interpreter for the language or something ...
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Should one avoid or be careful with C99 features in C code?
Some seem to say that one should avoid C99 features in C code as compilers don't really support those features. C99 is a standard from 1999, shouldn't these features be quite widespread now?
Should ...
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