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Posted by timothy on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:02AM from the now-known-as-d-no-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the new specifications for the C programming language. The standard is known unofficially as C1X and was published officially as ISO/IEC 9899:2011. It provides greater compatibility with the C++ language and adds new features to C (as indicated in the draft)."

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Re:First post!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:21AM (#38480406)

Do they sell them by the C-shore?

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Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)

by JustOK ( 667959 ) writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:40AM (#38480474) Journal

yes, if you have 300 clams.

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Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Noughmad ( 1044096 ) writes: <miha.cancula@gmail.com> on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:02AM (#38480538) Homepage

The new standard have been on display for free at the Alpha Centauri planning office for the last fifty years.

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Re:First post!! (Score:5, Funny)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:25AM (#38480612)

Oh? $300? For a PDF file? Heh.
But these limited-edition PDFs are signed and numbered.

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Re:First post!! (Score:4, Funny)

by NekSnappa ( 803141 ) writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @10:47AM (#38481690)

I think you meant c-shells.

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Re:First post!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Vanders ( 110092 ) writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @11:30AM (#38481976) Homepage

Developers can't write standards compliant code without knowing what the standards are.

Oh what am I saying? Developers won't write standards compliant code even if they do know what the standards are!

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Re:My "Ask Slashdot" (Score:3, Funny)

by bonch ( 38532 ) * writes: on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:57PM (#38483638)

Objective-C, of course.

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